As a crucial component to preventing sexual boredom and maintaining sexual and relationship satisfaction, sexual novelty is a relational characteristic that warrants considerable empirical attention; however, there is relatively little research on the role that sexual novelty plays in long-term, committed relationships. As such, we developed a brief, reliable measure of sexual novelty to stimulate additional research in this area. Participants consisted of 518 U.S. citizens in committed relationships of 6 months or longer who were recruited online through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to complete surveys assessing “sexual relationships.” Across two samples, the unidimensional Sexual Novelty Scale (SNS) demonstrated high internal consistency and test-retest reliability, as well as convergent and divergent validity. Our results indicate that the 5-item Sexual Novelty Scale is a brief, reliable, and valid measure of the extent to which partners in committed romantic relationships engage in sexually novel behaviour.
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The battle against bedroom boredom: Development and validation of a brief measure of sexual novelty in relationships
Sarah J. MatthewsRelated information
1 Department of Psychology, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
, Traci A. GiulianoRelated information1 Department of Psychology, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
, Marissa N. RosaRelated information1 Department of Psychology, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
, Kayleigh H. ThomasRelated information1 Department of Psychology, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
, Brooke A. SwiftRelated information1 Department of Psychology, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
, Nicki D. AhearnRelated information1 Department of Psychology, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
, Aaron G. GarciaRelated information1 Department of Psychology, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
, Skylar R. SmithRelated information1 Department of Psychology, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
, Casey M. NiblettRelated information1 Department of Psychology, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
, Mattie M. MillsRelated information1 Department of Psychology, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
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