Self‐reported sexual anxiety and arousal: The expanded sexual arousability inventory

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This study was designed to (a) provide initial validity data on the Expanded Sexual Arousability Inventory developed by E. F. Hoon (1978) and (b) to investigate the relationship of self‐reported sexual arousability to anxiety. Subjects were 252 female undergraduates and 90 female volunteers from the community who completed inventories concerning their sexual responsiveness. The arousal and anxiety scales were found to be uncorrelated, whereas a third scale, satisfaction, was so highly correlated with arousal as to be redundant. All scales showed high split‐half reliability, and the construct validity of arousal and anxiety was generally supported. No relationship was found, with either sample, between self‐reported sexual anxiety and arousal. These findings indicate the relationship between these two variables is not simple. However, it should be noted that the current subjects were not severely sexually anxious, and it cannot be concluded from these data that very high anxiety might not inhibit arousability.

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