Cross-Cultural Validation of the Sexual Desire Inventory (SDI-2) in 42 Countries and 26 Languages

Castro-Calvo J 1 , Beltrán-Martínez P 1 , Ballester-Arnal R 2 , Nagy L 3 , Koós M 4 , Kraus SW 5 Show all authors , Demetrovics Z 4 , Potenza MN 6 , Batthyány D 7 , Bergeron S 8 , Billieux J 9 , Briken P 10 , Burkauskas J 11 , Cárdenas-López G 12 , Carvalho J 13 , Chen L 14 , Ciocca G 15 , Corazza O 16 , Csakó R 17 , Fernandez DP 18 , Fernandez EF 19 , Fujiwara H 20 , Fuss J 21 , Gabrhelík R 22 , Gewirtz-Meydan A 23 , Gjoneska B 24 , Gola M 25 , Grubbs JB 26 , Hashim HT 27 , Hsieh YP 28 , Islam S 29 , Ismail M 30 , Jiménez-Martínez MC 31 , Jurin T 32 , Kalina O 33 , Klein V 34 , Költő A 35 , Lee SK 36 , Lewczuk K 37 , Lin CY 38 , Lochner C 39 , Lopez-Alvarado S 40 , Lukavská K 41 , Mayta-Tristán P 42 , Miller DJ 43 , Orosova O 44 , Orosz G 45 , Sungkyunkwan University's Research Team 46 , Ponce FP 47 , Quintana GR 48 , Quintero Garzola GC 49 , Ramos-Diaz J 50 , Rigaud K 42 , Rousseau A 51 , De Tubino Scanavino M 52 , Schulmeyer MK 53 , Sharan P 54 , Shibata M 18 , Shoib S 55 , Sigre-Leirós V 8 , Sniewski L 56 , Spasovski O 57 , Steibliene V 58 , Stein DJ 59 , Štulhofer A 60 , Ünsal BC 3 , Vaillancourt-Morel MP 61 , Van Hout MC 62 , Bőthe B 7

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Personality, Assessment, and Psychological Treatments, University of Valencia
  • 2 Departamento de Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología, University Jaume I of Castellón
  • 3 Doctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
  • 4 Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
  • 5 Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • 6 Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
  • 7 Institute for Behavioural Addictions, Sigmund Freud University Vienna
  • 8 Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal
  • 9 Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne
  • 10 Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf
  • 11 Laboratory of Behavioral Medicine, Neuroscience Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
  • 12 Virtual Teaching and Cyberpsychology Laboratory, School of Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico
  • 13 William James Center for Research, Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Universidade de Aveiro
  • 14 Department of Psychology, College of Humanity and Social Science, Fuzhou University
  • 15 Section of Sexual Psychopathology, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome
  • 16 Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences, University of Hertfordshire
  • 17 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Auckland University of Technology
  • 18 Nottingham Trent University, UK
  • 19 HELP University, Malaysia
  • 20 Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
  • 21 Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Sex Research, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • 22 First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Addictology, Charles University
  • 23 School of Social Work, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa
  • 24 Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Republic of North Macedonia
  • 25 Institute of Psychlogy, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 26 Center on Alcohol, Substance use, and Addictions, University of New Mexico
  • 27 University of Warith Al-Anbiyaa, College of Medicine, Karbala
  • 28 Department of Social Work, University of North Dakota
  • 29 Department of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University
  • 30 College of Medicine, University of Baghdad
  • 31 Universidad Pedagógca y Tecnológica de Colombia
  • 32 Department of Psychology, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
  • 33 Department of Educational Psychology and Psychology of Health, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice
  • 34 School of Psychology, University of Southampton
  • 35 Health Promotion Research Centre, University of Galway
  • 36 Department of Psychiatry, Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital
  • 37 Centre of Excellence in Responsible Gaming, University of Gibraltar
  • 38 Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University
  • 39 SAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Stellenbosch University
  • 40 University of Cuenca
  • 41 Decentralized Big Data Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
  • 42 Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Científica del Sur
  • 43 College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University
  • 44 Grupo de Investigación Biomédica y de Patología, Colombia
  • 45 Artois University, France
  • 46 Department of Psychology, Sungkyunkwan University
  • 47 Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Talca
  • 48 Departamento de Psicología y Filosofía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Tarapacá
  • 49 Florida State University, Republic of Panama
  • 50 Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Privada del Norte
  • 51 Leuven School For Mass Communication, KU Leuven
  • 52 Department of Psychiatry, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, St. Joseph's Health Care London and London Health Sciences Centre
  • 53 Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
  • 54 Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
  • 55 Department of Psychology, Shardha University
  • 56 Compassionate Inquiry, Canada
  • 57 Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
  • 58 Center for Excessive Gambling, Addiction Medicine, Lausanne University Hospitals (CHUV)
  • 59 SAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Dept of Psychiatry & Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town
  • 60 Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
  • 61 Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et les agressions sexuelles (CRIPCAS)
  • 62 Public Health Institute, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University
J Sex Res, 2024 Nov 19.
PMID: 39560207 DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2024.2417023

Abstract

Sexual desire is a complex construct with important implications for sexual functioning and well-being. In this research, we translated the Sexual Desire Inventory (SDI-2), a widely used scale for assessing sexual (desire), into 25 languages from English and used data from the International Sex Survey (ISS) to (a) investigate its psychometric properties (i.e. factorial structure, reliability, validity, and measurement invariance) and (b) explore the expression of sexual desire across different countries, genders, and sexual orientations. A total of 82,243 participants from 42 countries completed the SDI-2, along with other sexuality-related scales. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a three-factor solution for the SDI-2 (CFI = .980; RMSEA = .060), encompassing the domains of "Partner-related," "Attractive-person-related," and "Solitary" sexual desire. The reliability of the total score and subscales were excellent. Likewise, correlations with other sexuality-related variables were positive yet weak-to-moderate in effect size. Measurement invariance tests supported its use across countries, languages, genders, and sexual orientations. Analysis of SDI-2 scores according to these variables supported its ability to capture group-based differences in sexual desire. In sum, the SDI-2 constitutes a psychometrically robust measure for the assessment of sexual desire in non-clinical samples with utility in large-scale cross-cultural studies.

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