Indirect Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Comparison of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure, Viewing Time, and Choice Reaction Time Tasks
| Autor: | Alexander F. Schmidt, Rainer Banse, Rosina Krumova, Anna Melnikova, Jelena Rönspies, Asadeh Zolfagari |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male Psychometrics Sexual Behavior Choice Behavior Task (project management) Young Adult Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Surveys and Questionnaires Reaction Time Criterion validity Humans Homosexuality Male Heterosexuality General Psychology Reliability (statistics) Reproducibility of Results Contrast (statistics) Self Concept Convergent validity Sexual orientation Female Psychology Social psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Sexual Behavior. 44:1483-1492 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2800 0004-0002 |
| Popis: | The present study was conducted to validate an adaptation of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as an indirect latency-based measure of sexual orientation. Furthermore, reliability and criterion validity of the IRAP were compared to two established indirect measures of sexual orientation: a Choice Reaction Time task (CRT) and a Viewing Time (VT) task. A sample of 87 heterosexual and 35 gay men completed all three indirect measures in an online study. The IRAP and the VT predicted sexual orientation nearly perfectly. Both measures also showed a considerable amount of convergent validity. Reliabilities (internal consistencies) reached satisfactory levels. In contrast, the CRT did not tap into sexual orientation in the present study. In sum, the VT measure performed best, with the IRAP showing only slightly lower reliability and criterion validity, whereas the CRT did not yield any evidence of reliability or criterion validity in the present research. The results were discussed in the light of specific task properties of the indirect latency-based measures (task-relevance vs. task-irrelevance). |
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