Sexual Attitude and Sexual Concern
My name is Hao Li, I am a final year Undergraduate Psychology student at the University of Bath. I would like to invite you to participate in a research project investigating young people's sexual concerns and the effects this may have on their quality of life. The study comprises a questionnaire, which will take approximately ten minutes of your time. This study has received the approval of the departmental ethical committee. If after reading (part of) the questionnaire you feel unwilling to participate you may withdraw at any time. All responses remain strictly anonymous and confidential. The system is set up such that in no way we will be able to track down your identity. Submitting the questionnaire will be interpreted as your consent to participate in this study. However, you have the right to request your data be removed at any time. The findings of this project will be available in May 2008. If you are interested in the results, I will be more than happy to send you a brief summary or a copy of my research paper. In that case, and/or if you have any other questions, please contact me by email: ee3hl@bath.ac.uk. Thank you very much! Please click or fill in the following:
1. Gender:
2. Age:
3. Ethnicity:
4. Do you consider youself sexually active?
When you think about sex, thoughts may come up which you may find worrying, uncomfortable, or upsetting. Please write up such thoughts you may sometimes have, no matter how little or how much worrying you find them. Write up as many as you can remember having. (Remember, your answers remain strictly anonymous and will only be used for research purposes). Please use one box for each thought, you can write as little or as many as you like from 0 thought up to 11 thoughts.
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The questions below are about how the thoughts you wrote down on the previous boxes come up. Each question starts like this:
16. Having worrying, uncomfortable, or upsetting thoughts about sex is something ....
  disagree completely agree completely
.... I do automatically.
.... I do unintentionally.
.... that feels sort of natural to me.
.... I do without further thinking about it.
.... that would require mental effort to leave.
.... I do every day.
.... that’s typically “me”.
.... I would find hard not to do.
... I do frequently.
.... I don’t do on purpose.
.... I have been doing for a long time.
… I start doing before I realize I’m doing it.
We want to know more about the role sex plays in your life at this moment, i.e., how you feel about sex. It does not matter whether or not you are sexually active. Please for each word tick the button that best describes how you feel about sex.
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  comfortable uncomfortable
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  positive negative
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  enjoying scary
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  excited bored
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  calming worrying
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  easy troublesome
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  wonderful painful
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  agreeable disgusting
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  joyous distressing
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  satisfactory unsatisfactory
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  important unimportant
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  good bad
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  reassuring upsetting
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  purposeful useless
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  healthy unhealthy
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  relaxed tense
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  warm cold
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  happy sad
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  beautiful ugly
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  central in my life not at all central in my life
For each statement decide for which one you more likely to agree, then please tick in the appropriate column.
37. Extramarital sex
a. is OK if everyone agrees.
b. can break up families.
38. Sex
a. can cause as much as anxiety as pleasure.
b. on the whole is good and enjoyable.
39. Masturbation
a. cause me to worry.
b. can be a useful substitute.
40. After having sexual thoughts
a. I feel aroused.
b. I feel jittery.
41. When I engage in petting
a. I feel scared at first.
b. I thoroughly enjoy it.
42. Initiating sexual relationships
a. is a very stressful experience.
b. causes me no problem at all.
43. Oral sex
a. would arouse me.
b. would terrify me.
44. I feel nervous
a. about initating sexual relations.
b. about nothing when it comes to member of the opposite sex.
45. When I meet someone I am attracted to
a. I get to know him or her.
b. I feel nervious.
46. When I was younger
a. I was looking foward to having sex.
b. I felt nervious about the prospect of having sex.
47. When others filrt with me
a. I don't know what to do.
b. I flirt back.
48. Group sex
a. would scare me to death.
b. might be interesting.
49. If in the future I committed adultery
a. I would probably get caught.
b. I wouldn't feel bad about it.
50. I would
a. feel too nervious to tell a dirty joke in mixed company.
b. tell a dirty joke if it were funny.
51. Dirty jokes
a. make me feel uncomfortable.
b. often make me laugh.
52. When I awake from sexual dreams
a. I feel pleasant and relaxed.
b. I feel tense.
53. When I have sexual desires
a. I worry about what I should do.
b. I do something to satisfy them.
54. If in the future I committed adultery
a. it would be nobody's business but my own.
b. I would worry about my spouse's finding out.
55. Buying a pornographic book
a. wouldn't bother me.
b. would make me nervous.
56. Causual sex
a. is better than no sex at all.
b. can hurt many people.
57. Extramarital sex
a. is something necessary
b. can damage one's career.
58. Sexual advances
a. leave me feeling tense.
b. are welcome.
59. When I have sexual relations
a. I feel satisfied.
b. I worry about being discovered.
60. When talking about sex in mixed company
a. I feel nervious.
b. I sometimes get excited.
61. If I were to flirt with someone
a. I would worry about his or her reaction.
b. I would enjoy it.
Finally, we would like to know how you how satisfied or dissatisfied you are with your life in general at this moment. Please be open and honest.
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  disagree completely agree completely
In most ways my life is close to ideal.
If I could live my life over, I would change almost nothing.
I am satisfied with my life.
So far I have forgotten the important things I want in life.
The conditions of my life are excellent.

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