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Limited prior research has explored the nature of specific sexual values; though, morerecent research has begun exploring sexual congruence (i.e., the degree of alignment betweensexual values and behaviors). People are generally motivated to achieve consistency betweenvalues and behaviors, yet research has demonstrated that many people struggle to do so. Thepresent study aimed to better understand the nature of commonly endorsed sexual values in thegeneral population, as well as the direct association between sexual values and incongruence.Because religion has previously been identified as a predictor of sexual incongruence, this studyexplored the possibility that upholding restrictive sexual values may predict sexual incongruenceover and above religiousness. Secondary analysis of archival data was conducted using aweighted nationally representative sample (N = 2,519). Results revealed sexual values commonlyendorsed by the sample, including values around consent, commitment, hedonism, love, sex asnatural, religion/spirituality, privacy, safety, heterosexuality, reproduction, and anything asacceptable. As hypothesized, sexual values pertaining to abstinence, religion/spirituality,commitment, and heterosexuality were correlated with one another, and these values were relatedto religiousness. Further, consent-related values were correlated with values surrounding privacyand anything as acceptable, and these values were associated with lower levels of religiousness.Results demonstrated that specific sexual values were associated with sexual incongruence.Although religiousness significantly predicted sexual incongruence, sexual values significantlypredicted additional variance in sexual incongruence, over and above the effects of religiousness. |
