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Aim and Background: Hypersexual disorder is defined as many unsuccessful attempts by individuals to control or reduce the time spent engaging in sexual fantasies, tendencies, and behaviors that are responsive to frustrating mood situations or stressful events. The purpose of this study was to predict hypersexual disorder in university students based on the big five personality traits. Methods and Materials: In this descriptive research, 320 students in Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran, were randomly selected using multi-stage cluster sampling method based on the faculty and class in the academic year of 2016-2017. The participants completed the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory (HBI) and the NEO Personality Inventory. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation), Pearson correlation tests, and multiple linear regressions. Findings: Hypersexual disorder had a negative and significant relationship with the dimensions of agreeableness (P ˂ 0.01, r = -0.29) and conscientiousness (P < 0.05, r = -0.12), and had a positive and significant relationship with neuroticism (P < 0.01, r = 0.46). Moreover, the big five personality traits (R 2 = 23.9%) could favorably predict the hypersexual disorder in the university students; and personality dimensions of agreeableness and neuroticism were able to predict the variance of hypersexual disorder in university students. Conclusions: The findings of this study indicate the necessity of considering personality dimensions of agreeableness and neuroticism in hypersexual disorder among university students.

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Aim and Background: In the recent years, the percentage of people diagnosed with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) through sexual relations has grown dramatically. Since AIDS infection is associated with risky behaviors, to prevent illness, understanding the reasons for the growth of high-risk behaviors is essential. The aim of this study was to predict risky sexual behaviors related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) based on difficulties in emotion regulation in substance users. Methods and Materials: This study was descriptive-correlational. Statistical population included substance users referred to addiction treatment and rehabilitation centers in Shiraz, Iran, that 200 of them were selected by convenient sampling. The criterion variable was risky sexual behavior and the predictor variable was difficulties in emotion regulation which were assessed by HIV Risk-taking Behavior Scale (HRBS) and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), respectively. Data were analyzed using stepwise multiple regression. Findings:  All dimensions of difficulties in emotion regulation had a significant positive relationship with risky sexual behaviors (P < 0.01). Among other subscales of difficulties in emotional regulation, non-acceptance and limited access to effective strategies of emotion regulation were predictors of risky sexual behaviors. Conclusions: It can be concluded that difficulties in emotional regulation can predict risky sexual behavior in substance users and can lead to more vulnerability to such behaviors. This result will be useful in designing interventions to reduce risky sexual behavior.

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Aim and Backgrounds: Communication patterns of couples are meant the dynamics of the couples’ relationships. The communication patterns determine that couples how to communicate together and what happen in their marital relationships. It seems that disruptive patterns to have a devastating effect on marital relationship. The aim of the research was to study of the role of communication patterns, aggression, and sexual satisfaction in predicting dyadic adjustment. Methods and Material: To gain of this aim a sample with 300 of employees of government departments of Isfahan through accessible method. The research method was descriptive from type of correlation. Data gathering was conduct in field method and using Communication Patterns Questionnaire (CPQ), Buss and Perry’s Aggression Questionnaire (AQ), Sexual Satisfaction Scale (SSQ), and Revised Dyadic Adjustment Questionnaire (RDAS). Analyzing the data was carrying out by multiple Regression. Results: Findings showed that aggression, communication patterns, and sexual satisfaction have significant role in predicting the dyadic adjustment. Discussion & Conclusion: Therefore, it can be concluded that good relationships and high sexual satisfaction among couples can lead to dyadic adjustment.

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Aim and Backgrounds : This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of Cognitive Self-Compassion Training on Reduction of Marital Conflicts among couples who were seeking divorce. Material and Methods : Research method was semi-experimental using pretest, posttest and quarterly follow up with control group .Statistical population consisted of all the couples seeking divorce who were referred to the counseling centers of “ Welfare Organization” “Family Court” and private centers in Shahreza city since  April to October 2017 (N=300 couples). Of these, 30 couples were selected using available sampling. Selection was based on couple’s voluntary agreement to participate in the study, considering the entry indicators and exit criteria. Participants were then randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (n=15). Then Cognitive Self-Compassion Training Program was performed for 10 sessions of 90 minutes twice a week on experimental group. Research instrument was Sanai Martial Conflict Questionnaire Revise (2009). Data were analyzed by mixed analysis variance. Findings : Results indicated that Cognitive Self-Compassion Training significantly decreased marital conflicts of couples in experimental group in comparison of the control group (F=110.108, P=0.001) and this effectiveness has remained stable over the course of the quarterly follow-up (F= 39.40, P= 0.001). Conclusion : Therefore, it can be suggested that applying this intervention can be verified as an effective strategy to reduce the marital conflicts of couples seeking divorce in other counseling centers.

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Aim and Background: The expansion of internet and creation of social networks in its context, has caused a lot of interactions among people. Relationship with different sex is one of the phenomenon which is very common through cyberspace so that today these relationships has also been extended to adolescence. The purpose of this study was to study the pathology of relationship with different sex in virtual social networks to get a deeper understanding of it in adolescents. Methods and Materials: The research method was qualitative and descriptive phenomenology. Semi-structured interviews and Colaizzi method were used to collection and analyzing data. The sample consisted of 11 students aged 14-16 years old in one of the high schools of Tehran 18th district which were selected through purposeful sampling. Findings: Interviews analysis led to the identification of 3 main themes contains, experience with different sex, sexual corruption and traumatic consequences and 11 categories contains, motivations for communication, relationship modeling with different sex, variety of relationships, competition for takeover, strengthening relationship, sexual communication, promoting sexual corruption, sexual harm, social harm, and personal injury and 73 initial concepts. Conclusions: The results showed virtual social networks facilitates and strengthen the communication with different sexes and provides the context for their real-world communication and its harmful consequences.

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Aim and Background: The first years of marriage are the most enjoyable and, at the same time, the most difficult and most risky periods of Common life of couples. Therefore, the current research was done with the aim of examining the effectiveness of Group training based on choice theory on marital adjustment and sexual satisfaction of couples. Methods and Materials : This research is a semi-experimental with pretest-posttest design and control group. The statistical population of the research includes all couples in first year of their common life who suffered from marital problems and sexual dissatisfaction and in 2016 they went to the Basirat Clinic of counseling and assisting in Isfahan. From this population, 20 couples (20 women and 20 men) were selected by voluntary sampling method and after matching were randomly assigned to experimental (20 people) and control (20 people) groups. The subjects of experimental group received eight sessions of training based on the theory of choice, however, the control group did not receive any training. The questionnaires of Spanier's marital adjustment (1976) and Larsson's sexual satisfaction (1998) were distributed before and after educational interventions as pretest and posttest on all subjects. The findings of the research were analyzed with Multivariate Analysis of Covariance and SPSS-18 software. Findings: The findings indicated that there is a significant difference between the mean of posttest scores of the marital adjustment (F= 12/32, P<0/01) and sexual satisfaction (F= 8/66, P<0/01) for experiment and control groups after adjusting the covariate effect of the pretest. However, there was no significant difference between the mean scores of marital adjustment and sexual satisfaction of male and female participants (P>0/05). Conclusions: It seems that group training based on choice theory, can help improve marital adjustment and sexual satisfaction of couples by informing couples of basic needs, external control psychology, and the use of seven loving habits instead of destructive habits.

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Aim and Background: The occurrence of sexual behavior by young people with intellectual disability can create many problems for families and teachers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the sexual behaviors of adolescents with intellectual disability from the viewpoint of parents and teachers.

Material and Methods: This research was a comparative causative method and the community studied was all teachers and parents of intellectual disable adolescent students in Tehran, 50 parents and 50 teachers were selected by available sampling method and they were evaluated by a researcher-made questionnaire. Data were analyzed by independent T-test by using SPSS software.

Findings: There was a significant difference between the reports of parents and teachers (P>.001). Parents report that 30 percent of their children touch their personal body in a public place and 32 percent of this behavior was toward someone else. Teachers have also reported that students tend to touch their own body in a 38 percent in public place and touch 44 percent toward someone else. 

Conclusion: The occurrence of sexual behaviors in young people with intellectual disability was very diverse due to the lack of information resources, cognitive limitations and cultural and social values of the family. And from the perspective of parents and teachers, they show inappropriate behaviors. Parents' denial was also reported.

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Aim and Background: High levels of sexual risk behaviors in young adults constitute a major public health concern and understanding the transition to risky behaviors during emerging adulthood is a challenge for researchers. The present research was aimed to investigate the mediating role of the cognitive emotion regulation strategies in relationship between attachment styles with high-risky sexual behaviors in students of Islamic Azad University of Shiraz.

Methods and Materials: In this correlation and descriptive study with structural equation modeling approach, among all students of Islamic Azad University of Shiraz in the academic year of 2018-2019, 747 students were selected by random cluster sampling method. Data were collected by Risky Sexual Behaviors Questionnaire (RSBQ), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Qquestionnaire (CERQ) and Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) and then, were analyzed by SPSS and Lisrel software and using structural equation modeling.

Findings: The results showed that the relationship between attachment style and risky sexual behaviors questionnaire is mediated by cognitive emotion regulation strategies. The rate of fit indices of GFI was equal to 0.95, CFI was equal to 0.98, NFI was equal to 0.97, IFI was equal to 0.98, NNFI was equal to 0.98, AGFI was equal to 0.93, RFI was equal to 0.97 and RMSEA was equal to 0.061, all of which indicated the fitting of the proposed model with the data. The findings also showed that 50% of the variance observed in high-risk sexual behaviors can be explained by combining attachment styles variables, positive emotion regulation strategies, and negative emotion regulation strategies.

Conclusions: The findings of study supported the proposed conceptual model in which the relationship between childhood trauma and fear of happiness was mediated through positive and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies. So considering the role of these predictors and the mediators by professionals, therapists and planners appears to be necessary in work with students and specifically in counseling and treatment centers.

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Aim and Background: The attitude of parents to their children's sexual education has an effect on their sexual behavior and interaction with their children. No specific measurement tool has ever been developed to evaluate and measure this matter. The aim of present study was to develop a parental sexual education style questionnaire and determine its psychometric criteria.

Methods and Materials: The used research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of present study included parents residing in Behshahr city with children ranging in age from 4 to 12 years old. Among them, 500 individuals were selected as sample. The required data were gathered through three questionnaires including Parenting Style Questionnaire (PSQ), Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) and Parental Sexual Education Style Questionnaire (PSEQ). The gathered data were analyzed using Cranach’s alpha coefficient, correlation coefficient, confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory factor analysis.

Findings: Three factors were extracted from the results of confirmatory factor analysis, including strict sexual education style, permissive sexual education style and authoritative education style. In general, all 3 factors were able to explain 50.32% of variance related to 33 items of the questionnaire. The value of Cranach’s alpha coefficient was obtained equal to 0.751 for whole of the questionnaire. Also, the value of Cranach’s alpha for the first three components was equal to 0.739, 0.765 and 0.751, respectively. The Varimax rotation matrix showed that all questions are applicable to the extracted styles.

Conclusions: Parental sexual education styles questionnaire has proper reliability and validity, and can be used as a useful tool for measuring parental sexual education styles.

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Aim and Background: Based on different theoretical explanations of the theory of social exchange increasing positive exchanges and decreasing negative exchanges is inherent in all approaches to intervention with couples. This study aimed to study the effect of cognitive self-compassion training on Social exchange styles among couples who were seeking divorce.

Methods and Materials: This was a quasi-experimental research with pre-test, post-test and follows up, as well as the control group. The study population consisted of all the couples seeking divorce who were referred to the counseling centers of Welfare Organization, Family Court and private centers in Shahreza city since April to October 2017 (N=300 couples). The sample included 30 voluntary couples that were randomly divided into two groups control and experimental. In the experimental group 10 training sessions were conducted with an average of 90- minutes.The participants answered to Social Exchange Styles Scale (Leybman et all, 2011) in three stages: pre-test, post-test and follow up. Data were analyzed by Mixed Model ANOVA.

Findings: Cognitive self-compassion training had a significant effect on fairness (p<0.035), tracking (p<0.043), benefit-seeking (p<0.001) in the post-test and this effect remains constant after 3- months follow–up. Also the resalts showed in both post-test and follow- up in exprimental group, the mean score of fairness, tracking and benefit-seeking’s women is lower than men that showed cognitive self-compassion training significantly decreased fairness and tracking on women and improved benefit-seeking on men(p<0.001).

Conclusion: Since such training can be used as an effective intervention method to reduce favor equity, accurate monitoring costs and benefit, individualism and to improve overinvestment in exchange relationships between couples.

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Aim and Background: Regard to the impact of the sexual traumatic event on somatic and psychological functioning and the importance of this issue in students, the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the severity of sexual trauma experience on somatic symptoms and the role of moderating cognitive emotion regulation strategies in Student girls abused.
Methods and Materials: The present research method was descriptive-correlation and the statistical population was all students aged 14 to 17 in Tehran province in the academic year of 1997-98. In this study, two areas were selected as available (Rudehen Education Area and Four Area). By screening the cases of sexual experience (sexual harassment and sexual abuse), 273 people participated in the analysis as the main sample. The data were collected by checklist of Traumatic Experiences of Nugent Hues and Wonder Hart & Kruger (2002), Cognitive emotion regulation strategies questionnaire Garnefsky et al. (2001), Greek’s Mental Health Questionnaire (2015), and analyzed using correlation, bootstrap test, and conditional effects.
Findings: The results of the present study showed that among the strategies of emotion regulation, Catastrophizing and rumination positivity, and acceptance negatively, were able to significantly moderate the effects severity of the experience of sexual trauma on somatic symptoms.
Conclusions: Due to the moderating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the relationship between the severity of sexual experience and somatic symptoms in order to promote physical health and reduce somatic symptoms, it is recommended to develop programs to study the history of trauma, especially sexual trauma in adolescents with somatic symptoms, and also by training the emotion regulation consistence strategies, effective interventions should be performed.

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Aim and Background: Studies have shown that mindfulness affects many psychological variables. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on sexual dysfunction and sexual satisfaction in women with meta-marital relationships.
Methods and Materials: The research method is quasi-experimental and applied. The research design was pre-test, post-test and experimental groups. The statistical population of the study consisted of all women with spouses with meta-marital relationship referring to Tehran Psychological Health Clinic. As a quasi-experimental type of study, 29 patients (control and experimental groups) were selected as sample size based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Research instruments consisted of Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire (LSSQ) and FSFI. In the present study, the shapiro wilk test was used to investigate the normal distribution of data. Data were analyzed using one way ANOVA, repeated measures test and Bonferroni post hoc test.
Findings: The results showed that due to the difference between the means of sexual satisfaction and sexual function, scores from pre-test to post-test increased. There was also a significant difference between the mean post-test and follow-up of sexual satisfaction and sexual function in the experimental group (p <0.001). The difference between pre-test and post-test for sexual satisfaction and sexual function in the control group was not significant (p = 0.552). There was also a decrease in mean post-test and follow-up of sexual satisfaction and sexual function in control group (p = 0.906).
Conclusions: It seems that mindfulness can affect many psychological variables such as sexual disorders and sexual satisfaction of women with spouses with meta-marital relationships. Further research is recommended to increase external validity.

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Aim and Background: Sexual abuse of children and adolescences is a global phenomenon. These behaviors have a destructive effect on the mental health of adolescents. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of integrative Acceptance Commitment-Cognitive Behavioral therapy (ACT-CBT) and parent management training (PMT) on the post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms of adolescent boy with sexual abuse.
Methods and Materials: The research method was semi-experimental, and research design was three groups (one group ACT-CBT, one group PMT and one group of control) with three stages of pre-test, post-test and two months follow-up. The statistical population of the study was adolescent boy aged 14 to 18 years old with sexual abuse in Isfahan, among them 45 people were selected based on inclusion criteria and then randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group. The dependent variable measurement instrument was the Weathers et al (1994) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Syndrome Questionnaire. The ACT-CBT and PMT received treatment in 10 sessions. The data were analyzed by repeated measure analysis of variance and post-hoc Bonferroni test.
Findings: The results showed that integrative ACT-CBT reduces the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder among adolescent boy with sexual abuse (P<.001), but PMT had no effect on reducing the post-traumatic stress disorder (P<.05).
Conclusions: According to the research findings, it is suggested that the integrative ACT-CBT should be used in the treatment of boy adolescents who encountered with sexual abuse to reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Aim and Background: Sexual dysfunction is one of the most common disorders among women and is usually associated with by a clinically significant disturbance in a person's ability to respond sexually or to experience sexual pleasure. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and female sexual dysfunction.
Methods and Materials: The research was descriptive-correlational. Its statistical population included all married female students of Shahroud universities. Four hundred married female students in Shahroud universities were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Participants responded to the female sexual function index (FSFI), cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (CERQ), and the self‑report measures of child abuse (CASRS). The present research data were analyzed using SPSS and LISREL software and structural equation modeling method.
Findings: The results of this study showed that there are a significant relation between childhood maltreatment, sexual dysfunction and cognitive emotion regulation. Also, cognitive emotion regulation mediated the relationship childhood maltreatment and female sexual dysfunction.
Conclusion: The results of the present study support the hypothesis that negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies mediate the relationship between childhood maltreatment and female sexual dysfunction.

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Aim and Background: Affective-sexual needs are as important motivational forces that have a vital role in the stability and enhancing of quality of marital life. Then the main goal of the current research was the comparison of the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral couple therapy (CBCT) and acceptance commitment therapy (ACT) approaches on enhancing affective-sexual needs among Nonclinical Couples in Bandar Abbas city, Iran.
Methods and Materials: The research design was semi-experimental design with pretest, posttest, and follow up. The statistical population of this study includes of nonclinical couples that participated in the training course about life skills and cyberspace. 48 subjects were selected through a convenient sampling method and randomly assigned to two groups of interventions, CBCT and ACT, and one control group. Each couple in intervention groups received 12 sessions and 90 minutes of therapy. Affective-Sexual Needs of Iranian Couples scale (2020) used for gathering data and analysis of variance with repeated measures tests used for analyzing data by using SPSS 19 software.
Findings: The result showed that both CBCT and ACT interventions were effective to enhance affective-sexual couple's needs. Moreover, comparing the effectiveness of CBCT and ACT approaches showed that the ACT approach was more effective in enhancing of three dimensions of affective-sexual couple's needs include avoiding discouraging behaviors, affection-sexual needs, physical-sexual needs.
Conclusions: It seems the implementation of CBCT and ACT interventions are useful for enhancing affective-sexual couple's needs. This could influence other dimensions of marital life such as marital satisfaction and marital quality.

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Aim and Background: Conflicts in the family create issues and problems at the individual, institutional and social levels. Marital conflicts and divorce after sudden death in the family are considered to be the most important stressors in the family. The purpose of this study is to predict marital conflicts based on life skills and attachment styles mediated by sexual satisfaction and love story of couples.
Methods and Materials: The statistical population of this study included all couples who referred to counseling centers under the supervision of the Judiciary in Arak who had referred to these centers in a period of 6 months in 1398. The total statistical population was 600 couples (1200 people) and 146 couples (292 people) were selected as the statistical sample by available sampling method. Data collection tool: Hazan and Shiver Attachment Styles Scale Questionnaire (1993); Marital Conflict Scale Sanaei et al. (2000); Saatchi et al.'s Life Skills Scale (2010); The Larson Sexual Satisfaction Scale (1988) and the Sternberg Love Story Scale were standardized by (Alaei and Karami, 2007), all of which had validity and reliability. This study was a correlational study that was performed by structural equation modeling.
Findings: The results showed that both sexual satisfaction and love story can play a mediating role in predicting marital conflicts based on life skills and attachment styles.
Conclusions: Therefore, it can be concluded that sexual satisfaction can balance the relationship between attachment styles and marital conflict and reduce the rate of marital conflict. Also, the love story in the relationship between life skills and marital conflicts can reduce these conflicts.

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Aim and Background: Sexual dysfunction and intimacy and marital quality are interrelated. Healthy sexual function of each spouse is one of the prominent and influential factors on the quality of marital relationship. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion-oriented therapy on tendency to marital infidelity and quality of marital life in women with low sexual desire.
Methods and Materials: The research design was quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test with a control group. In order to conduct research among all women with low sexual desire who referred to counseling centers in Isfahan in 2021, 18 couples (n = 36) were randomly assigned to the experimental group (n = 18 for each group) and a control group (n = 18). To assess the research variables, Attitudes toward Infidelity scale (Whatley, 2006) and dyadic adjustment scale (Busby & et al 1995) were used in the pre-test and post-test stages, and the experimental group received emotional therapy for 10 sessions. The control group did not receive any treatment. Data were analyzed by covariance test.
Findings: The results showed that emotion-oriented therapy was effective in reducing tendency to marital infidelity and increase the quality of marital life.  (p<.01).
Conclusions: Emotion focused couple therapy promotes marital intimacy and more bonding and attachment between couples through the de-escalation of negative cycles of interaction, changing interactional positions and facilitating the emergence of new solutions to old problems.

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Aim and Background: This study examines the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions in the treatment of women with orgasmic disorder and compares it with cognitive-behavioral therapy. Although this approach is widely used in psychotherapy, it has recently been introduced in the treatment of female sexual dysfunction.
Methods: Through a randomized clinical trial, 50 married women who received the diagnosis of orgasm disorder were included in the study. After introducing the study and informed consent, 25 women were randomly assigned to the intervention group (mindfulness-based interventions) and 25 women to the control group (cognitive-behavioral therapy). It was explained to the clients that the evaluation of their interventions is done through the research protocol, and finally they were blinded about their intervention. Also, all the data were provided to the researcher and statistical consultant based on blind codes.
Findings: With 95% certainty, it can be concluded that compared to the results recorded before the intervention, interventions based on mindfulness improved the symptoms of women suffering from orgasmic disorder during the study period which confirmed a significant interaction between treatment and time. Multivariate analysis of variance between the participant's results of orgasm assessment questionnaire scores confirmed the significant changes over time for each of the two groups. It is also concluded that the effect of the interventions over time was significantly greater in the intervention group.
Conclusion: The findings suggest that therapists should consider helping clients develop mindfulness skills during sexual experiences. Sexual mindfulness provides a skill that people can develop without the involvement of their partner and may help people make more efforts to promote sexual health and improve the quality of sex.

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Aim and Background: Childhood is one of the most important stages of life, in this period of life, all kinds of sexual harassment may occur for children. This research was conducted with the aim of the effectiveness of sex education in sexually abused children and normal children.
Methods and Materials: The present study was a semi-experimental design with a pre-test, post-test and two-month follow-up with a control group. The statistical population of this research was children aged 7 to 12 years in the southwest of Tehran in 1400. The statistical sample of this research consisted of 15 sexually abused children and 15 normal children in the 16^th and 19^th district of Tehran, who were selected using the purposeful sampling method. The research tools were Russell, Peplau and Cutrona isolation questionnaire (1978), California Clark et al.'s social adjustment questionnaire (1953) and Gresham and Elliott's social skills questionnaire (1990), which were implemented on both groups of children. Finally, the data were analyzed using the analysis of covariance methods with the help of SPSSV22 software.
Findings: The findings showed that sexual education training is more effective on increasing adaptation and social skills at the confidence level of 99% (P<0.01) and reducing isolationism at the confidence level of 95% (P<0.05) of sexually abused children compared to normal children.
Conclusions: The findings of the research show that sex education can reduce children's behavioral problems and improve their adaptation and social skills, and therefore, sex education should be prioritized for abused children.

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Aim and Background: Sexual aggression and rape is one of the most challenging concepts in the current era; so the aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of The Acceptance of Modern Myths about Sexual Aggression (AMMSA) Scale in the Iranian population. For this purpose, factor structure, validity and reliability of the scale was examined.
Methods and Materials: A sample group of 937 Iranian people living in Iran who were between 20 and 50 years old, were selected by convenience sampling method; Then they completed the scale of The Acceptance of Modern Myths about Sexual Aggression. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to investigate the factor structure of the scale, Pearson correlation coefficient was used to evaluate the validity, and Cronbach's alpha method was used to determine the internal consistency of the components of this scale. Intra-class correlation coefficient was also used to evaluate the reliability of the retest.
Findings: Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the AMMSA scale has an acceptable factor structure. Cronbach's alpha coefficients obtained from all components (above 0.9) also showed that this scale has a good internal consistency and also the correlation coefficients of Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI) and Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) confirmed divergent and convergent validity of the scale, respectively (P<0.001).
Conclusions: The results showed that The Acceptance of Modern Myths about Sexual Aggression (AMMSA) Scale has appropriate validity and reliability in Iranian population.