Translation and preliminary validation of the Sexual Addiction Screening Test in young people

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Published: Jul 2, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2016.n1.v2.207
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sexual addiction assessment young people

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Jesús Castro Calvo
Universitat Jaume I de Castellón
Rafael Ballester-Arnal
Universitat Jaume i de Castellón
Maria Dolores Gil-Llario
Universidad de Valencia
Pedro Salmerón-Sánchez
Universitat Jaume I de Castellón
Vicente Morell-Mengual
Universidad de Valencia

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Sex addiction is a pathology that starts in the adolescence or the early adulthood and has an important impact on social and personal development. Early detection is a key issue, so the aim of this study was to adapt and validate one of the most employed questionnaires for its assessment: the Sexual Addiction Screening Test. For this purpose, 600 young people completed the study surveys. Through a factor analysis, we found that the SAST was composed by 4 subscales that explained 38.38% of the variance. Furthermore, reliability and convergent validity values supported its employment in the assessment of sex addiction. Therefore, SAST is now one of the available resources for the assessment of this pathology in our context.Sex addiction is a pathology that starts in the adolescence or the early adulthood and has an important impact on social and personal development. Early detection is a key issue, so the aim of this study was to adapt and validate one of the most employed questionnaires for its assessment: the Sexual Addiction Screening Test. For this purpose, 600 young people completed the study surveys. Through a factor analysis, we found that the SAST was composed by 4 subscales that explained 38.38% of the variance. Furthermore, reliability and convergent validity values supported its employment in the assessment of sex addiction. Therefore, SAST is now one of the available resources for the assessment of this pathology in our context.

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Castro Calvo, J., Ballester-Arnal, R., Gil-Llario, M. D., Salmerón-Sánchez, P., & Morell-Mengual, V. (2016). Translation and preliminary validation of the Sexual Addiction Screening Test in young people. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 2(1), 319–328. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2016.n1.v2.207
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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016): PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE AND PROFESSION: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE.
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Author Biographies

Jesús Castro Calvo, Universitat Jaume I de Castellón

Contratado Predoctoral. Dept. de Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología

Rafael Ballester-Arnal, Universitat Jaume i de Castellón

Dpto. Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología. Salusex-Unisexsida. Universitat Jaume I

Maria Dolores Gil-Llario, Universidad de Valencia

Dpto. Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación. Salusex-Unisexsida. Universitat de Valencia. Estudi general

Pedro Salmerón-Sánchez, Universitat Jaume I de Castellón

Dpto. Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología. Salusex-Unisexsida. Universitat Jaume I

Vicente Morell-Mengual, Universidad de Valencia

Dpto. Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación. Salusex-Unisexsida. Universitat de Valencia. Estudi general

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