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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Adolesc. 2009 Nov 17;33(5):755–765. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2009.10.003

Table 2.

Scale Means (Standard Deviations) by Sex Motivational Profile

Low For/High Against Sex High For/Low Against Sex High For with Coping/Moderate Against Sex Full Sample
35.3%
 41.8%
 22.8%
 100.0%
M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD)
Motivations For Sex
 Intimacy 1.57 (1.16) 2.72 (0.85) 2.69 (0.82) 2.31 (1.11)
 Enhancement 0.75 (0.62) 2.16 (0.83) 2.85 (0.75) 1.82 (1.12)
 Coping 0.17 (0.30) 0.41 (0.43) 2.02 (0.58) 0.69 (0.85)
Motivations Against Sex
 Not Ready 2.74 (1.06) 1.28 (1.00) 1.80 (1.03) 1.91 (1.21)
 Health 3.62 (0.68) 2.85 (0.98) 3.30 (0.81) 3.22 (0.91)
 Values 2.68 (1.19) 0.77 (0.80) 1.39 (1.19) 1.59 (1.34)

Note. Possible range for all motivations scales 0 (not important to me) to 4 (very important to me).