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Sexological worldview in sexologists: Validation of a construct and a model to explain its development.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sexological worldview in sexologists: Validation of a construct and a model to explain its development./
Author:	Sitron, Justin A.
Description:	235 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Donald Dyson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Education, Social Sciences. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3313321
ISBN:	9780549620686

Sexological worldview in sexologists: Validation of a construct and a model to explain its development.
Sitron, Justin A.

Sexological worldview in sexologists: Validation of a construct and a model to explain its development. - 235 p.

Adviser: Donald Dyson.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Widener University, 2008.

Sexology is the scientific study of sex and sexuality. Throughout its beginnings, it has been comprised of scholars from many scientific disciplines. In recent years, leading scholars in the field of sexology have been calling for more students of sexology. Until now, sexological study has predominantly consisted of professionals in other human services fields that choose to specialize in sexology. With this suggested change and a culture that prefers evidence-based training practices, a need is established for specialized training programs that are specifically designed to meet the needs of scholars of sexologists and that are demonstrated to be effective. Over the years, several studies have been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness the SAR (Sexuality Attitude Reassessment/Restructuring)---an affective training intervention for sexologists. This training program aims to help its students to develop more humanistic and pluralistic approaches to their work---a perspective where the professional is able to see their clients' unique life experience---rather than a more traditional one in which professionals diagnose, judge and act on bias and impose their own perspective on the client, student, or research participant. Attempts have been made to measure the SAR's effectiveness using several different measures and the research has yielded inconsistent and contradictory results. The author posits that a new construct must be developed to measure the success of affective training for sexologists. The new construct, sexological worldview, is demonstrated to be a more accurate construct than attitude change. This study utilized an expert panel of 16 sexologists to review the definition of sexological worldview and establish its validity. Then, based on literature about affective training programs in multiculturalism and diversity that has taken place in fields of social work, education, medicine and psychology, the author sought to find whether the established Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) adequately defined the stages of sexological worldview development. Through interviews with a sample of 30 sexologists, the author established validity for the new construct and presents an adapted model that explains sexological worldview development, the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity---Sexological Use (DMIS-S). The work concludes with a discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of the new construct and the DMIS-S and presents models to explain the forces that motivate sexological worldview development and the stages of the DMIS-S with specific sexological applications.

ISBN: 9780549620686Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019148
Education, Social Sciences.

Sexological worldview in sexologists: Validation of a construct and a model to explain its development.
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