Table 1.

Rotated Factor Pattern of 43 Sexual Activity and Attitude Items Composing Four Factors

Items: Item content	Sexual Permissiveness	Sexual Preoccupation	Negative Attitude Toward Sex	Pressure to Engage in Sex
Factor 1
Romantic kissing	.94	−.10	.17	.14
Felt private parts under clothes	.93	.01	.02	−.10
Private parts felt under clothes	.90	−.01	−.01	−.01
Private parts felt over clothes	.89	.02	.01	−.10
“Necked” or “made-out”	.88	.03	.02	.07
Romantic arm around partner	.87	−.02	.12	.09
Felt private parts over clothes	.83	.05	−.01	−.10
Have had sexual intercourse	.76	.06	−.01	−.10
Romantic holding of hands	.73	.05	.04	.07
Likely to have intercourse	.53	−.01	−.39	.01
Would like to have intercourse	.49	.17	−.35	.14
OK for people my age to have sex	.42	−.01	−.39	−.01
Factor 2
Read books/magazines about sex	−.10	.77	.01	.09
Sexual pictures turn-on	−.11	.76	.03	.10
Movies/television love scenes turn-on	.04	.71	.13	.21
Fantasize or daydream about sex	−.10	.69	−.10	.09
Attractive female turn-on	.05	.68	.06	−.30
Attractive male turn-on	.18	.66	.11	−.10
People without clothes turn-on	.07	.66	.03	−.30
Masturbation frequency	.07	.64	−.01	−.20
Dancing turn-on	−.01	.61	−.10	.11
Seeing romantic kissing turn-on	−.01	.61	.04	.19
Own body turn-on	.05	.59	.07	.01
Masturbation doesn’t hurt you	.11	.52	−.20	−.10
Sexual dreams turn-on	−.02	.44	−.10	.19
Songs with sexual content turn-on	−.11	.43	−.10	.31
Think about sex often	.26	.42	−.20	.06
Factor 3
Having sex would hurt my health	.10	−.01	.76	−.10
Lose respect for myself	−.20	.09	.72	−.10
Thinking of sex upsets me	.10	.01	.70	.04
Frightened when thinking of sex	.11	.01	.69	.09
Sex is dirty	.09	−.10	.65	.02
Lose the respect of friends	−.30	.23	.52	.07
Would be embarrassed	−.31	.10	.48	.02
Never want to think about sex	−.10	−.20	.46	−.01
I wish sex did not exist	.08	−.01	.45	−.02
Worry about getting pregnant	−.10	−.02	.36	.06
Factor 4
Would feel more mature	−.01	−.01	.04	.63
Person would like me more	.09	−.10	.07	.57
Would feel more loved and wanted	.11	.08	−.20	.50
Gain the respect of my friends	−.01	−.01	.01	.49
Do sexual things because expected	.09	.08	.33	.41
Show the person I liked them	.08	.11	−.20	.37
Factor intercorrelationsa
1. Sexual Permissiveness	.96	.42	−.65**	.14
2. Sexual Preoccupation	.44**	.91	−.27*	.15
3. Negative Attitude Toward Sex	−.55**	−.39**	.85	−.05
4. Pressure to Engage in Sex	.03	.25*	.02	.70

Note. Hypothesized loadings are in bold, hyperplane loadings are underlined.

^aAbused group correlations below the italic diagonal, comparison group correlations above diagonal. Correlations are not significantly different across groups. Alpha reliabilities are depicted in diagonal.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.