Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive, #5025, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA.
Psychol Assess. 2011 Mar;23(1):282-6. doi: 10.1037/a0021842.
Risky sexual behaviors are behaviors that involve the possibility of an adverse outcome, such as contracting a sexually transmitted infection or unwanted pregnancy. The question of whether risky sexual behavior exists as a discrete class (i.e., taxon) or as a dimensional construct has not previously been explored. The authors performed a set of taxometric analyses on 4 factor scales derived from the Sexual Risk Survey (Turchik & Garske, 2009) with data from 1,103 college students. The results provided consistent support for a dimensional latent structure in which variations in reported risky sexual behavior reflect differences in degree and not differences in kind. The implications of these findings for the assessment of risky sexual behavior are discussed.
危险性行为是指存在不良后果风险的性行为，例如感染性传播疾病或意外怀孕。之前尚未探讨过危险性行为是否作为离散类别（即分类单元）或维度结构存在。作者对来自 1103 名大学生的 Sexual Risk Survey（Turchik & Garske，2009）的 4 个因素量表进行了一系列分类分析。结果一致支持维度潜在结构，即报告的危险性行为的变化反映了程度的差异，而不是种类的差异。讨论了这些发现对评估危险性行为的意义。
