Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada.
Arch Sex Behav. 2010 Feb;39(1):5-56. doi: 10.1007/s10508-009-9556-9. Epub 2010 Jan 5.
The assessment of sexual arousal in men and women informs theoretical studies of human sexuality and provides a method to assess and evaluate the treatment of sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias. Understanding measures of arousal is, therefore, paramount to further theoretical and practical advances in the study of human sexuality. In this meta-analysis, we review research to quantify the extent of agreement between self-reported and genital measures of sexual arousal, to determine if there is a gender difference in this agreement, and to identify theoretical and methodological moderators of subjective-genital agreement. We identified 132 peer- or academically-reviewed laboratory studies published between 1969 and 2007 reporting a correlation between self-reported and genital measures of sexual arousal, with total sample sizes of 2,505 women and 1,918 men. There was a statistically significant gender difference in the agreement between self-reported and genital measures, with men (r = .66) showing a greater degree of agreement than women (r = .26). Two methodological moderators of the gender difference in subjective-genital agreement were identified: stimulus variability and timing of the assessment of self-reported sexual arousal. The results have implications for assessment of sexual arousal, the nature of gender differences in sexual arousal, and models of sexual response.
男性和女性的性唤起评估为人类性行为的理论研究提供了信息，并提供了一种评估和治疗性功能障碍和性癖好的方法。因此，了解唤起的衡量标准对于人类性行为研究的理论和实际进展至关重要。在这项荟萃分析中，我们回顾了研究，以量化自我报告和生殖器性唤起测量之间的一致性程度，以确定这种一致性是否存在性别差异，并确定主观-生殖器一致性的理论和方法学调节因素。我们确定了 132 项发表于 1969 年至 2007 年之间的同行评审或学术实验室研究报告，这些研究报告了自我报告和生殖器性唤起测量之间的相关性，女性的总样本量为 2505 人，男性为 1918 人。自我报告和生殖器测量之间的一致性存在统计学上的显著性别差异，男性（r =.66）的一致性程度大于女性（r =.26）。确定了主观-生殖器一致性的性别差异的两个方法学调节因素：刺激变异性和自我报告性唤起评估的时间。这些结果对性唤起评估、性唤起的性别差异的性质以及性反应模型具有影响。
