{"id":3473,"date":"2021-01-10T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/mestonlab\/?page_id=3473"},"modified":"2021-01-10T21:11:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T21:11:24","slug":"the-why-have-sex-short-form-questionnaire-ysex-sf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/mestonlab\/the-why-have-sex-short-form-questionnaire-ysex-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Why Have Sex Short-Form Questionnaire (YSEX?-SF)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Meston, C. M.,\u00a0Kilimnik, C. D., Freihart, B. K., &amp; Buss, D.M<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Although the YSEX? has impressive psychometric properties, the required completion time is a barrier to its use in time-constrained contexts. We developed and validated a short-form version of the instrument. The new 28-item, 14 subscale YSEX?-SF demonstrates acceptable model fit and good internal-reliability, with evidence for cross-form and construct validity. The YSEX?-SF maintains the original instrument\u2019s sound psychometric properties with a significantly shorter completion time, which may facilitate the study of sexual motivation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended paper:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meston, C. M.,\u00a0Kilimnik, C. D., Freihart, B. K., &amp; Buss, D.M. (2019). Why humans have sex: Development and psychometric assessment of a short-form version of the YSEX? instrument.\u00a0<em>Journal of Sex &amp; Marital Therapy,\u00a0<\/em>1-19<em>.<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/mestonlab\/files\/2019\/09\/Why-Humans-Have-Sex-Development-and-Psychometric-Assessment-of-a-Short-Form-Version-of-the-YSEX-Instrument.pdf\">PDF(1 MB)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meston, C. M.,\u00a0Kilimnik, C. D., Freihart, B. K., &amp; Buss, D.M Although the YSEX? has impressive psychometric properties, the required completion time is a barrier to its use in time-constrained contexts. We developed and validated a short-form version of the instrument. The new 28-item, 14 subscale YSEX?-SF demonstrates acceptable model fit and good internal-reliability, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3473","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"site-graphic":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"clc4269","author_link":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/mestonlab\/author\/clc4269\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Meston, C. M.,\u00a0Kilimnik, C. D., Freihart, B. K., &amp; Buss, D.M Although the YSEX? has impressive psychometric properties, the required completion time is a barrier to its use in time-constrained contexts. We developed and validated a short-form version of the instrument. The new 28-item, 14 subscale YSEX?-SF demonstrates acceptable model fit and good internal-reliability, with&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/mestonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/mestonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/mestonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/mestonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/mestonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/mestonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/mestonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3473\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/mestonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}