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ArticleInternational journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHP

The short version of the Sexual Distress Scale (SDS-3): Measurement invariance across countries, gender identities, and sexual orientations.

Chung-Ying Lin, Meng-Che Tsai, Mónika Koós, Léna Nagy, Shane W Kraus, Zsolt Demetrovics, Marc N Potenza, Rafael Ballester-Arnal, Dominik Batthyány, Sophie Bergeron and 59 more

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Chung-Ying LinInstitute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Meng-Che TsaiDepartment of Pediatrics, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Mónika KoósDoctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Léna NagyDoctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Shane W KrausDepartment of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Zsolt DemetrovicsInstitute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Marc N PotenzaYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Rafael Ballester-ArnalDepartamento de Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología, University Jaume I, Castelló, Spain.
Dominik BatthyányInstitute for Behavioural Addictions, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria.
Sophie BergeronDépartement de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Joël BillieuxInstitute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Peer BrikenInstitute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine & Forensic Psychiatry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany.
Georgina Cárdenas-LópezVirtual Teaching and Cyberpsychology Laboratory, School of Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, Mexico.
Joana CarvalhoWilliam James Center for Research, Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
Jesús Castro-CalvoDepartment of Personality, Assessment, and Psychological Treatments, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Lijun ChenDepartment of Psychology, College of Humanity and Social Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian province, China.
Giacomo CioccaSection of Sexual Psychopathology, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Ornella CorazzaDepartment of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
Rita I CsakoDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
David P FernandezDepartment of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Elaine F FernandezHELP University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Hironobu FujiwaraDepartment of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Johannes FussInstitute of Forensic Psychiatry and Sex Research, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Roman GabrhelíkDepartment of Addictology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Ateret Gewirtz-MeydanSchool of Social Work, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Biljana GjoneskaMacedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia.
Mateusz GolaInstitute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Joshua B GrubbsCenter on Alcohol, Substance use, and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.
Hashim T HashimUniversity of Baghdad, College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq.
Md Saiful IslamDepartment of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Mustafa IsmailUniversity of Baghdad, College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq.
Martha Jiménez-MartínezUniversidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Colombia.
Tanja JurinDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Ondrej KalinaDepartment of Educational Psychology and Psychology of Health, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia.
Verena KleinSchool of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
András KöltőHealth Promotion Research Centre, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Sang-Kyu LeeDepartment of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea.
Karol LewczukInstitute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland.
Christine LochnerSAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Silvia López-AlvaradoUniversity of Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador.
Kateřina LukavskáDepartment of Addictology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Percy Mayta-TristánFacultad de Medicina, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú.
Ion MileaInternational Institute for the Advanced Studies of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Dan J MillerCollege of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia.
Oľga OrosováDepartment of Educational Psychology and Psychology of Health, Pavol Jozef Safarik Universit y in Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia.
Gábor OroszArtois University, Arras, France.
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Fernando P PonceFacultad de Psicología, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Talca, Region del Maule, Chile.
Gonzalo R QuintanaDepartamento de Psicología y Filosofía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Arica y Parinacota, Chile.
Gabriel C Quintero GarzolaFlorida State University, Panama, Republic of Panama.
Jano Ramos-DiazFacultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Perú.
Kévin RigaudArtois University, Arras, France.
Ann RousseauLeuven School For Mass Communication, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Marco De Tubino ScanavinoDepartment of Psychiatry, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Marion K SchulmeyerUniversidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Pratap SharanDepartment of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Mami ShibataDepartment of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Sheikh ShoibDepartment of Psychology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Vera Sigre-LeirósInstitute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Luke SniewskiAuckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Ognen SpasovskiFaculty of Philosophy, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Trnava, Slovakia.
Vesta SteiblieneLaboratory of Behavioral Medicine, Neuroscience Institute, Lithuanian University of Health sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Dan J SteinSAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Julian StrizekAustrian Public Health Institute, Vienna, Austria.
Aleksandar ŠtulhoferDepartment of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Berk C ÜnsalDoctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-MorelDépartement de Psychologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada.
Marie Claire Van HoutPublic Health Institute, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.
Beáta BőtheDépartement de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.

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Abstract

Background: The three-item Sexual Distress Scale (SDS-3) has been frequently used to assess distress related to sexuality in public health surveys and research on sexual wellbeing. However, its psychometric properties and measurement invariance across cultural, gender and sexual subgroups have not yet been examined. This multinational study aimed to validate the SDS-3 and test its psychometric properties, including measurement invariance across language, country, gender identity, and sexual orientation groups. Methods: We used global survey data from 82,243 individuals (Mean Results: Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported a unidimensional factor structure for the SDS-3, and multi-group CFA (MGCFA) suggested that this factor structure was invariant across countries, languages, gender identities, and sexual orientations. Cronbach's Conclusion: The SDS-3 has a unidimensional factor structure and appears to be valid and reliable for measuring sexual distress among individuals from different countries, gender identities, and sexual orientations.

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Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)International sex surveyPsychometric analysisSexual distress

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