Table 4.
Correlations Between Sexual Behavior and Responses and Measures of Individual Difference for College-Age Women (N = 172)
| Big-Five measure |
Sex-specific measure |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domain and measure | Neuroticism | Extraversion | Intellectualism | Agreeableness | Conscientiousness | Sociosexuality | Erotophobia | Schema |
| Sexual behavior: History | ||||||||
| Sexual Experience (DSFI) | .01 | .33 | .08 | −.03 | −.06 | .43 | −.41 | .37 |
| No. of Partners in Lifetime | .03 | .33 | .14 | −.03 | −.06 | .69 | −.44 | .41 |
| Sexual behavior: Current | ||||||||
| Sexual Experience (DSFI) | −.01 | .21 | −.05 | .16 | .06 | .18 | −.28 | .26 |
| Frequency of Intercourse | −.02 | .20 | −.10 | .12 | .11 | .20 | −.29 | .21 |
| Sexual responses | ||||||||
| Desire: Sexual thoughts | −.17 | .15 | −.06 | −.13 | −.09 | .42 | −.55 | .32 |
| Arousal: SAI | −.09 | .26 | .00 | .04 | .04 | .33 | −.56 | .37 |
| Arousal: Love | .00 | −.05 | .13 | .00 | −.07 | .03 | −.22 | .07 |
Note. All correlations >. 15 are significant, p= .05. DSFI = Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory; SAI = Sexual Arousability Index; Love = Hatfield Passionate Love Scale.