The Sexual Variety Seeking Scale

In the context of Iranian culture, there is a kind of resistance addressing sexual issues. To examine the Sexual Variety Seeking variable, authors reviewed the literature and found no suitable measure regarding this variable in Iranian culture. Authors decided to create a scale measuring this issue indirectly. After defining the sexual variety seeking concept based on the literature, authors devised items in 5 subscales. After thorough examination of the items for several times, scale's face validity was examined. Then the completed scale was administered in a sample of 245 married men and the next step, using factor analysis, test's reliability was examined and its factors were derived. To calculate the internal consistency of the scale, corrected correlations between each item and the total score of subscale were calculated and weak items were omitted. For doing so, our criterion was a correlation below (r = 0.30). In this step 21 items were omitted. Before this omission, the total scales validity was (0.9375), which increased up to (0/9473). Afterwards, on the basis of total subscales α after omission of each item, weak items in each subscale were examined. In this step, we found that the mean α level for Idealistic Distortion is extremely low and then omitted the whole subscale. α levels were calculated for Sexual partners (α = 0.90), Moral Orientation (α = 0.81), Intimacy Seeking (α = 0.70), Sexual Behaviours (α = 0.80) subscales. Afterwards finding KMO in a significant level revealed that our sample size was sufficient. Then based on the rotated procedures (Varimax with Kaiser Normalization) it was indicated that all three remaining factors have a value more than 1.0. The ultimate test format included 46 items in 3 subscales, Sexual Variety Seeking, Moral Orientation and Intimacy Seeking. The Intimacy Seeking subscale (13.19% of total variance, validity = 0.94), measures a kind of sexuality seeking in which the first goal is to establish romantic relationship. The Moral Orientation subscale (23.47% of total variance, validity = 0.83), examines the individual's moral criteria in his sexual relationships. And the Behavioural Sexual Variety Seeking subscale (11.15% of total variance, validity = 0.84), which is a combination of sexual behaviours and sexual partners subscales, measures the person's tendency to have sex with various partners or in various ways.