Direccion de Investigación, Postgrado y Transferencia Tecnológica, Universidad de Tarapaca, Arica, 100000, Chile.
Departamento de Psicología y Filosofia, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, 1000000, Chile.
F1000Res. 2023 Nov 20;11:1056. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.122077.2. eCollection 2022.
Sexual self-concept has a central role in the life of the elderly population. Indeed, their sexual self-concept has significant and positive relationships with their satisfaction with life, pleasure, and willingness to interact with others. However, social-cultural prejudice means that the elderly are considered asexual individuals, harming their sexual self-concept. This prejudice is prominent in Chile, where the elderly do not have access to clear information about their sexuality. However, research on the Chilean elderly population is still in its infancy and requires more attention. Hence, this research aims to construct and validate a scale of sexual self-concept for the elderly Chilean population to cover this identified gap in the literature.
Sixty items were integrated into the first version of the scale. Ten external judges were asked to assess the content validity. Twenty-eight items were maintained. Subsequently, an instrumental and cross-sectional design was implemented with a non-probabilistic sampling (N = 188). Items were refined with corrected homogeneity indices and conditional estimates of Cronbach's alpha and Omega coefficient.
A final scale of nine items equally distributed in three dimensions was obtained: Sexual self-efficacy (ω = 0.867), Sexual assertiveness (ω = 0.764), and Sexual self-esteem (ω = 0.803). The confirmatory factor analysis reflects that the theoretical model has an adequate fit (CFI = .989; TLI = .984; RMSEA = .086).
The data analyses confirmed that the scale has adequate psychometric properties. This scale can be used for multidimensional measurements of sexual self-concept in the elderly in Chile. Further research can confirm its psychometric properties in different settings within the Spanish language population.
性自我概念在老年人群体的生活中起着核心作用。事实上，他们的性自我概念与他们对生活的满意度、愉悦感以及与他人互动的意愿有着显著的积极关系。然而，社会文化偏见使老年人被视为无性个体，损害了他们的性自我概念。这种偏见在智利尤为明显，老年人无法获得有关其性行为的明确信息。然而，针对智利老年人群体的研究仍处于起步阶段，需要更多关注。因此，本研究旨在构建和验证智利老年人群体的性自我概念量表，以填补文献中的这一空白。
最初的量表版本整合了 60 个项目。10 位外部评审员被要求评估内容效度。保留了 28 个项目。随后，采用非概率抽样（N=188）进行了工具性和横断面设计。使用校正同质性指数和 Cronbach's alpha 和 Omega 系数的条件估计对项目进行了细化。
得到了一个最终的量表，包含 9 个项目，均匀分布在三个维度上：性自我效能感（ω=0.867）、性自信（ω=0.764）和性自尊（ω=0.803）。验证性因子分析反映出理论模型具有较好的拟合度（CFI=0.989；TLI=0.984；RMSEA=0.086）。
数据分析证实该量表具有良好的心理测量特性。该量表可用于智利老年人性自我概念的多维测量。进一步的研究可以在西班牙语人群的不同环境中确认其心理测量特性。
