Development and Psychometric Properties of the Female Sexual Desire Questionnaire (FSDQ)

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2512-2521

  Goldhammer, Denisa L ^a   Mccabe, Marita P ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Female Sexual Desire Questionnaire; Female Sexual Dysfunction; HSDD; Scale Development; Sexual Desire; Sexual Desire Problems

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DESIRE QUESTIONNAIRE; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL DESIRE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 80052506604     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02334.x     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Regan PC, Berscheid E. Gender differences in beliefs about the causes of male and female desire. Pers Relatsh 2005;2:345-58.
2. Regan PC, Berscheid E. Beliefs about the state, goals, and objects of sexual desire. J Sex Marital Ther 1996;22:110-20.
3. Everaerd W, Laan E, Both S, Spiering M. Sexual motivation and desire. Everaerd W, Laan E, Both S, eds. Sexual appetite, desire and motivation: Energetics of the sexual system. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen; 2001:95-110.
4. Singer B, Toates FM. Sexual motivation. J Sex Res 1987;23:481-501.
5. Leiblum SR, Rosen RC. Sexual desire disorders. New York: Guilford Press; 1988.
6. Levine SB. Reexploring the concept of sexual desire. J Sex Marital Ther 2002;28:39-51.
7. Arrington R, Cofrancesco J, Wu AW. Questionnaires to measure sexual quality of life. Qual Life Res 2004;13:1643-58.
8. Wiegel M, Meston C, Rosen R. The Female Sexual Function Index: Cross-validation and development of clinical cutoff scores. J Sex Marital Ther 2005;31:1-20.
9. Clayton AH, Segraves RT, Leiblum SR, Basson R, Pyke R, Cotton D, Lewis-D'Agostino D, Evans KR, Sills TL, Wunderlich GR. Reliability and validity of the Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory-Female (SIDI-F), a scale designed to measure severity of female hypoactive sexual desire disorder. J Sex Marital Ther 2006;32:115-35.
10. Clayton AH, Goldfischer ER, Goldstein I, Derogatis L, Lewis-D'Agostino DJ, Pyke R. Validation of the Decreased Sexual Desire Screener (DSDS): A brief diagnostic instrument for generalised acquired female hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD). J Sex Med 2009;6:730-8.
11. Derogatis L, Clayton A, Lewis-D'Agostino D, Wunderlich G, Fu Y. Validation of the Female Sexual Distress Scale-Revised for assessing distress in women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder. J Sex Med 2008;5:357-64.
12. Jones LA. The use of validated questionnaires to assess female sexual dysfunction. World J Urol 2002;20:89-92.
13. Rosen RC, Brown C, Heiman JR, Leiblum SR, Meston C, Shabsigh R, Ferguson D, D'Agostino R Jr. The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): A multidimensional self-report instrument for the assessment of female sexual function. J Sex Marital Ther 2000;26:191-208.
14. Sand M, Rosen RC, Meston C, Brotto L. The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): A potential "gold standard" measure for assessing sexual function in women. Fertil Steril 2009;92:S129.
15. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 4th edition. Text revision. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press; 2000.
16. Spector IP, Carey MP. Incidence and prevalence of the sexual dysfunctions: A critical review of the empirical literature. Arch Sex Behav 1990;19:389-408.
17. Beck JG, Bozman AW, Qualtrough T. The experience of sexual desire: Psychological correlates in a college sample. J Sex Res 1991;28:443-56.
18. Apt C, Hurlbert DF. Motherhood and female sexuality beyond one year postpartum: A study of military wives. J Sex Educ Ther 1992;18:104-14.
19. Spector IP, Carey MP, Steinberg L. The Sexual Desire Inventory: Development, factor structure, and evidence of reliability. J Sex Marital Ther 1996;22:175-90.
20. Leiblum S, Symonds T, Moore J, Soni P, Steinberg S, Sisson M. A methodology study to develop and validate a screener for hypoactive sexual desire disorder in postmenopausal women. J Sex Med 2006;3:455-64.
21. McHorney CA, Rust J, Golombok S, Davis S, Bouchard C, Brown C, Basson R, Sarti CD, Kuznicki J, Rodenberg C, Derogatis L. Profile of female sexual function: A patient-based, international, psychometric instrument for the assessment of hypoactive sexual desire disorder in oophorectomized women. Menopause 2004;11:474-83.
22. Rosen RC, Lobo RA, Block BA, Yang H-M, Zipfel LM. Menopausal Sexual Interest Questionnaire (MSIQ): A unidimensional scale for the assessment of sexual interest in postmenopausal women. J Sex Marital Ther 2004;30:235-50.
23. Sills T, Wunderlich G, Pyke R, Segraves RT, Leiblum SR, Clayton A, Cotton D, Evans KR. An item-response analysis of the Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory: Refinement of a scale designed to measure severity in female hypoactive sexual desire disorder. J Sex Med 2005;2:801-18.
24. Basson R, Berman J, Burnett A, Derogatis LR, Ferguson D, Fourcroy JL, Goldstein I, Graziottin A, Heiman J, Laan E, Leiblum S, Padma-Nathan H, Rosen R, Segraves K, Segraves RT, Shabsigh R, Sipski M, Wagner G, Whipple B. Report of the international consensus development conference on female sexual dysfunction: Definitions and classifications. J Urol 2000;163:888-93.
25. Basson R. The female sexual response: A different model. J Sex Marital Ther 2000;26:51-65.
26. Goldhammer DL, McCabe M. A qualitative exploration of the meaning and experience of sexual desire for partnered heterosexual women. Submitted for publication.
27. Beck JG. Hypoactive sexual desire disorder: A review. J Consult Clin Psychol 1995;63:919-27.
28. King BE, Allgeier ER. The Sexual Desire Inventory as measure of sexual motivation in college students. Psychol Rep 2000;86:347-50.
29. Spector IP, Fremeth SM. Sexual behaviors and attitudes of geriatric residents in long-term care facilities. J Sex Marital Ther 1996;22:235-46.
30. Graham CA, Sanders SA, Milhausen RR, McBride KR. Turning on and turning off: A focus group study of the factors that affect women's sexual arousal. Arch Sex Behav 2004;33:527-38.
31. Tolman D, Szalacha L. Dimensions of desire: Bridging qualitative and quantitative methods in a study of female sexuality. Psychol Women Q 1999;23:7-39.
32. DeLamater JD, Sill M. Sexual desire in later life. J Sex Res 2005;42:138-49.
33. McCabe MP, Cobain MJ. The impact of individual and relationship factors on sexual dysfunction among males and females. Sex Relation Ther 1998;13:131-43.
34. Sprecher S. Sexual satisfaction in premarital relationships: Associations with satisfaction, love, commitment and stability. J Sex Res 2002;39:190-6.
35. Trudel G, Landry L, Larose Y. Low sexual desire: The role of anxiety, depression and marital adjustment. Sex Relation Ther 1997;12:95-9.
36. Yeh H-C, Lorenz FO, Wickrama KAS, Conger RD, Elder GH. Relationships among sexual satisfaction, marital quality, and marital instability at midlife. J Fam Psychol 2006;20:339-43.
37. Byers ES. Evidence for the importance of relationship satisfaction for women's sexual functioning. Kaschak E, Tiefer L, eds. A new view of women's sexual problems. Binghamton, NY: The Hawthorn Press; 2001:23-6.
38. Hallstrom T, Samuelsson S. Changes in women's sexual desire in middle life: The longitudinal study of women in Gothenburg. Arch Sex Behav 1990;19:259-68.
39. Smith CA. Women, weight, and body image. Chrisler JC, Golden C, Rozee PD, eds. Lectures on the psychology of women. 3rd edition. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies; 2004:76-93.
40. Deeks A, McCabe MP. Sexual function and the menopausal woman: The importance of age and partner's sexual functioning. J Sex Res 2001;38:219-25.
41. Lindholm-Norman S. Hypoactive sexual desire disorder in reproductive-aged women. Diss Abstr Int 2008;68:6317.
42. Koch PB, Mansfield PK. Women's sexuality as they age: The more things change, the more they stay the same. SIECUS Rep 2001;30:5-9.
43. Koch PB, Mansfield PK, Thurau D, Carey M. "Feeling frumpy": The relationships between body image and sexual response changes in midlife women. J Sex Res 2005;42:215-23.
44. McCabe MP. The development and maintenance of sexual dysfunction: An explanation based on cognitive theory. Sex Relation Ther 1991;6:245-60.
45. Rosen RC, Shifren JL, Monz BU, Odom DM, Russo PA, Johannes CB. Correlates of sexually related personal distress in women with low sexual desire. J Sex Med 2009;6:1549-60.
46. Hyde JS. The next decade of sexual science: Synergy from advances in related sciences. J Sex Res 2001;38:97-101.