ArticleArchives of sexual behavior2026
The Hurlbert Index of Sexual Desire-Short Form: Psychometric Properties.
Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
The Hurlbert Index of Sexual Desire (HISD; Apt & Hurlbert, 1992) is a widely used 25-item self-report measure of sexual desire in intimate relationships. Despite broad application across clinical and empirical research, its factor structure has received limited scrutiny, and its length constrains use in longitudinal and large-scale survey contexts. The present study developed a psychometrically rigorous short form using a sequential, three-sample validation design. Three independent datasets collected via Amazon Mechanical Turk (N = 500, 389, and 418 individuals in committed relationships) served as training, testing, and replication samples. Item reduction combined exploratory structural equation modeling and bifactor methods. The resulting nine-item HISD-SF was best represented by a bifactor model with a dominant global sexual desire factor and three specific factors: sex drive, perceived desire adequacy, and partner-specific desire. Model fit was excellent in the training sample and acceptable across testing and replication samples. Overall reliability was high (
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