Developing a Measure for the Need for Sex
Year: 2026
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The chapter “Developing a Measure of the Need for Sex” presents results from a research program that aimed to develop a picture-story measure of the need for sex (n Sex) through an experimental manipulation of motivational states, measure, indicator, and criterion validation approach. The resulting coding system, which also includes a measure of sexual conflict, comprises categories that were reliably sensitive to motive arousal across six studies with more than 800 participants. Findings demonstrating the measure’s validity in terms of associations with affective processes accompanying experimental motive arousal and in terms of predicting a behavioral outcome are presented. Results documenting n Sex’s convergent and discriminant validity with other implicit and explicit motive measures and with participant gender are also reported.
Source: Oxford University Press eBooks
Authors: Oliver C. Schultheiss, Jessica Hinzmann
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7213443377