A Brief History of Attempts to Measure Sexual Motives
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Hatfield, Elaine
Luckhurst, Cherie
Rapson, Richard L.
Abstract / Description
Artists, creative writers, and musicians have long been interested in the complex motives that spark passionate love, sexual desire, and sexual behavior. Recently, scholars from a variety of disciplines have begun to investigate two questions: “Why do men and women choose to engage in sexual liaisons?” “Why do they avoid such encounters?” Theories abound. Many theorists have complained that there exists a paucity of scales designed to measure the plethora of motives that prompt people to seek out or to avoid sexual activities. In fact, this observation is incorrect. Many such scales of documented reliability and validity do exist. The reason that few scholars are familiar with these scales is that they were developed by psychometricians from a variety of disciplines and are scattered about in an assortment of journals, college libraries, and researchers’ desk drawers, thus making them difficult to identify and locate. This paper will attempt to provide a compendium of all known sexual motives scales, hoping that this will encourage scholars to take a multidisciplinary approach in developing typologies of sexual motives and/or in conducting their own research into the nature of sexual motives.
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sexual motives measurement scalesPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2012-12-19
Journal title
Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
Volume
6
Issue
2
Page numbers
138–154
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Hatfield, E., Luckhurst, C., & Rapson, R. L. (2012). A Brief History of Attempts to Measure Sexual Motives. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 6(2), 138–154. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v6i2.96
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Hatfield, Elaine
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Luckhurst, Cherie
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Rapson, Richard L.
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Date of first publication2012-12-19
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Abstract / DescriptionArtists, creative writers, and musicians have long been interested in the complex motives that spark passionate love, sexual desire, and sexual behavior. Recently, scholars from a variety of disciplines have begun to investigate two questions: “Why do men and women choose to engage in sexual liaisons?” “Why do they avoid such encounters?” Theories abound. Many theorists have complained that there exists a paucity of scales designed to measure the plethora of motives that prompt people to seek out or to avoid sexual activities. In fact, this observation is incorrect. Many such scales of documented reliability and validity do exist. The reason that few scholars are familiar with these scales is that they were developed by psychometricians from a variety of disciplines and are scattered about in an assortment of journals, college libraries, and researchers’ desk drawers, thus making them difficult to identify and locate. This paper will attempt to provide a compendium of all known sexual motives scales, hoping that this will encourage scholars to take a multidisciplinary approach in developing typologies of sexual motives and/or in conducting their own research into the nature of sexual motives.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationHatfield, E., Luckhurst, C., & Rapson, R. L. (2012). A Brief History of Attempts to Measure Sexual Motives. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 6(2), 138–154. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v6i2.96en_US
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ISSN1981-6472
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1788
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.2154
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v6i2.96
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Keyword(s)sexual motivesen_US
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Keyword(s)measurementen_US
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Keyword(s)scalesen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleA Brief History of Attempts to Measure Sexual Motivesen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue2
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Journal titleInterpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
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Page numbers138–154
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Volume6
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