Sexual Desire Inventory (Ortega, Zubeidat & Sierra, 2006)

• Populations: Adolescents and Adults
• Age ranges: 13-43
• Languages: English, Spanish
• Countries: Spain

Items

Subscales:

• Dyadic Sexual Desire: 9 Items
• Solitary Sexual Desire: 4 Items

Full scale not reported, Example items as reported:

“Making love out of doors in a romantic setting, e.g., field of flowers, beach at night,”

“When you spend time with an attractive person (for example at work or school)...,”

“Intercourse with someone you know but have not had sex with,”

Scoring

“Items were rated on a Likert scale anchored by 0: no desire and 8: strong desire. In some cases anchor points are different (not at all important and extremely important for Items 8 and 12; much less desire and much more desire for tems 9 and 13; frequency labels for Items 1, 2, 10, and 14). Item 14 asked about distress experienced during abstinence from sexual activity. Consequently, it was not included in the factor analysis; it was omitted from the Spanish version of the inventory for the same reason. In short, Items 1 to 9 refer to dyadic desire and 10 to 13 to solitary desire.” (Ortega, Zubeidat & Sierra, 2006)

Citations

Ortega, V., Zubeidat, I., & Sierra, J. C. (2006). Further Examination of Measurement Properties of Spanish Version of the Sexual Desire Inventory with Undergraduates and Adolescent Students. Psychological Reports, 2006(99) 147-165

Team comments

 *Validation sample contained >30% secondary education / high school students.