Construction and validation of sexual well-being

Subject Areas : Psychology

Narges Salak ¹ , Seyed Hamid Atashpour ^{2 *}

1 - PhD Student in Psychology, Department of psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch , Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

Received: 2025-04-23 Accepted : 2025-06-03 Published : 2025-06-15

Keywords: sexual well-being, construction, validation.,

Abstract :

This research was carried out with the aim of building and validating the sexual well-being scale. The sampling method was available. The research tool included a 25 question questionnaire created by the researcher. Before completing the questionnaires, the participants answered questions about their current demographic, mental and physical health. Exploratory factor analysis, parallel analysis and Cronbach's alpha were used to check the validity and reliability of the tool, respectively. It is important to note that the stages of creating the sexual well-being questionnaire took place during the Corona pandemic, and therefore, a major part of the data collection process was done through online evaluation. The results showed that the index size is equal to 0.927 and Bartlett's test (X2 = 11572.03 and p < 0.001) is also significant; Therefore, according to the adequacy of sampling and the significance of Bartlett's test, the data are suitable for factor analysis. Based on KMO, factors that have an eigenvalue higher than 1 can be extracted as factors, and the results show that 4 factors have an eigenvalue greater than one. Also, the values of the common factor loadings show a large value for all the investigated variables, and the smallest common value is equal to 0.52. In total, the common value of all expressions is optimal.

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