Psychology poster assignment

A Measures of Sexual Satisfaction and Frustration

Tammy Lowery Zacchilli, Rebecca Liller, Alanna Marrero,

Andree Garnier, and Anella Garness

The main purpose of the present studies was the construction of a sexual frustration measure. Few studies have examined sexual frustration. Wright (2012) found that the majority of participants in her study reported some degree of sexual frustration. Specifically, participants who reported less sex during the past week reported more sexual frustration. Thus, sexual satisfaction seems to be important to relationship quality but little is known about the effects of sexual frustration. In the two previous studies, items were created to measure sexual frustration. These items were subjected to an exploratory factor analysis and two factors emerged. Thus, a third study was launched to further examine these factor structures.

Discussion

Although the alphas for each of the new factors were acceptable, the results of the CFI indicated that the two factor model did not show good fit. Only the SRMR was in the acceptable range of < .10 (Kline, 2005). The RMSEA should be between .05 and .08 for acceptable fit and the CFI should be >.90 to indicate good fit (Kline, 2005). Two of the factor loadings for factor 2 were low (.473 and .484) which may be why the model did not fit well. Future research is needed to further examine how to best measure sexual frustration.