Sexual Satisfaction Across Cultures, Genders, Languages, and Sexual Orientations: Validation of the Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction

Marie Michèle Paquette, Sophie Bergeron, Noémie Bigras, Mónika Koós, Léna Nagy, Shane W. Kraus, Zsolt Demetrovics, Marc N. Potenza, Rafael Ballester-Arnal, Dominik Batthyány, Joël Billieux, Peer Briken, Julius Burkauskas, Georgina Cárdenas-López, Joana Carvalho, Jesús Castro-Calvo, Lijun Chen, Giacomo Ciocca, Ornella Corazza, Rita I. CsakoDavid P. Fernandez, Elaine F. Fernandez, Hironobu Fujiwara, Johannes Fuss, Roman Gabrhelík, Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan, Biljana Gjoneska, Mateusz Gola, Joshua B. Grubbs, Hashim T. Hashim, Md Saiful Islam, Mustafa Ismail, Martha C. Jiménez-Martínez, Tanja Jurin, Ondrej Kalina, Verena Klein, András Költő, Sang Kyu Lee, Karol Lewczuk, Chung Ying Lin, Christine Lochner, Silvia López-Alvarado, Kateřina Lukavská, Percy Mayta-Tristán, Dan J. Miller, Oľga Orosová, Gábor Orosz, Hyein Chang, Kyeongwoo Park, Fernando P. Ponce, Gonzalo R. Quintana, Gabriel C.Quintero Garzola, Jano Ramos-Diaz, Kévin Rigaud, Ann Rousseau, Marco De Tubino Scanavino, Marion K. Schulmeyer, Pratap Sharan, Mami Shibata, Sheikh Shoib, Vera Sigre-Leirós, Luke Sniewski, Ognen Spasovski, Vesta Steibliene, Dan J. Stein, Carol Strong, Berk C. Ünsal, Marie Pier Vaillancourt-Morel, Marie Claire Van Hout, Beáta Bő the

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Abstract

Sexual satisfaction can be important for overall well-being and has been described as a sexual right. Individual and cultural factors, such as gender identity and sexual orientation, may influence theways in which individuals describe, share, or experience their sexuality. The aims of the present study were to examine the factor structure of the five-item GlobalMeasure of Sexual Satisfaction (GMSEX) in a large sample of adults in relationships, to conduct measurement invariance tests to examine whether the GMSEX functions similarly across language-, country-, gender- and sexual orientation-based subgroups, and to evaluate its validity with sexuality and relationship- related outcomes.Results of a confirmatory analysis among 51,778 participants from42 different countries across five continents (Mage=32.39 years, SD= 12.52, 56.9% cisgender women) corroborated the proposed one-dimensional factor structure of the scale. Measurement invariance tests also indicated that the scale was fully invariant across gender- and sexual orientation-based subgroups, and partially invariant across language- and country-based subgroups. The GMSEX correlated negatively with masturbation frequency and relationship length and positively with the frequency of sexual activity. Our findings support the validity of the GMSEX as a short and reliable scale to measure sexual satisfaction across diverse samples.

Original languageEnglish
JournalPsychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2025

Keywords

  • Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction
  • gender and sexual diversity
  • sexual satisfaction
  • validation cross-cultural

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