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Development and validation of the physical disability sexual and body esteem scale

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posted on 2024-06-17, 03:52 authored by G Taleporos, M McCabe
The Physical Disability Sexual and Body Esteem (PDSBE) scale was developed to assess respondents' capacity to feel positive about their sexuality and their body while living with a physical impairment. The current paper presents four studies that were conducted to develop and assess the psychometric properties of the 10 item PDSBE scale. The first study was an exploratory factor analysis involving 348 participants with physical disabilities. The factors were: Sexual Esteem, Attractiveness to Others, and Body Esteem. The second study was a confirmatory factor analysis, with a total of 338 participants. This analysis confirmed the factor structure established in study 1. The third study revealed good test-retest reliability on a total of 47 participants with physical disabilities. The final study was conducted with 748 participants with physical disabilities and showed that the PDSBE had high reliability and good convergent and divergent validity. Mean scores showed that women scored significantly higher than men on the total PDSBE scale and on the Sexual Esteem and Attractiveness to Others subscales. Future applications for the PDSBE scale are discussed.

History

Journal

Sexuality and disability

Volume

20

Pagination

159-176

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ISSN

0146-1044

eISSN

1573-6717

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2002, Human Sciences Press, Inc.

Issue

3

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

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