Newcomb M D, Bentler P M
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1983 Apr;44(4):862-73. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.44.4.862.
Results of recent psychological research have been at odds with the major physiological evidence on the nature of female orgasmic responsiveness. Although female orgasm appears to be a single process physiologically, subjective reports by women indicate that individual differences in their experience is multidimensional. The basis for the discrepant findings is analyzed via two studies of reported orgasmic experiences in women. One sample of 115 sexually experienced women yielded data that replicated the finding that coital and masturbatory orgasmic responsiveness can be statistically distinguished and independently assessed, thus indicating that sample selection associated with prior research could not explain the result. A separate sample of 101 sexually experienced women were given an instrument that assessed coital responsiveness but differentiated masturbatory responsiveness into dimensions associated with masturbation when alone and with a partner without intercourse. A confirmatory factor analysis substantiated the existence of the three dimensions of female orgasm. However, female orgasmic responsiveness was highly correlated across the three dimensions so that it was possible to isolate a large second-order factor of general orgasmic responsiveness that is consistent with most of the physiological evidence on the unitary nature of orgasm. Correlates of the orgasm scales with background data revealed some discriminant validity for the three dimensions of responsiveness.
近期心理学研究结果与关于女性性高潮反应本质的主要生理学证据不一致。尽管女性性高潮在生理上似乎是一个单一过程，但女性的主观报告显示，她们体验的个体差异是多维度的。通过两项关于女性性高潮体验报告的研究，分析了这些矛盾发现的原因。115名有性经验女性的样本得出的数据重现了以下发现：性交和自慰性高潮反应在统计学上可以区分并独立评估，这表明与先前研究相关的样本选择无法解释该结果。101名有性经验女性的另一个样本使用了一种工具，该工具评估性交反应，但将自慰反应区分为独自自慰和有伴侣但无性交时自慰相关的维度。验证性因素分析证实了女性性高潮三个维度的存在。然而，女性性高潮反应在这三个维度上高度相关，因此有可能分离出一个与关于性高潮单一本质的大多数生理学证据一致的一般性高潮反应的二阶大因素。性高潮量表与背景数据的相关性揭示了反应三个维度的一些区分效度。
