Internal consistency of the scales of the Chinese version of the questionnaire «Affective and motivational orientation related to erotic arousal»

Authors

  • Igor A. Fourmanov Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Xinchun Nie Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

sexual motivation, reliability, internal consistency

Abstract

Understanding various sexual motives has a profound impact on determining the causes, significance and consequences of sexual behaviour. The article presents the procedure for adapting the Chinese version of the questionnaire «Affective and motivational orientation related to erotic arousal» and empirically established its reliability by the criterion of internal consistency. Gender differences in hierarchies and the strength of dispositional sexual motives of the Chinese were also revealed: women differ in the greater strength of the motives of comfort, power, care and self-importance, and men – in the greater strength of the motives of the importance of a partner, pleasure, submission and procreation.

Author Biographies

  • Igor A. Fourmanov, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    doctor of science (psychology), full professor; head of the department of social and organisational psychology, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

  • Xinchun Nie, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    postgraduate student at the department of social and organisational psychology, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

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2022-06-14

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No. 2 (2022): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology

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Fourmanov, I.A. and Xinchun Nie 2022. Internal consistency of the scales of the Chinese version of the questionnaire «Affective and motivational orientation related to erotic arousal». Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology. 2 (Jun. 2022), 49–58.