Terri D Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 138802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terri D Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terri D |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University at Mansfield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0281-2729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 359 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 30 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Suffering in Silence
Objectives: Pain during sexual activity is a common, yet understudied experience. This research used a non-clinical sample and included women, men, and non-cisgender participants (in some of the analyses) in an attempt to understand more about the prevalence of and potential reasons for common painful sexual experiences (including non-penetrative, penile-vaginal, and anal sex) and their connection with traditional gender roles. Methods: For this …
Use of the Bogus Pipeline Increases Sexual Concordance in Women But Not Men
Attitudes, Beliefs, and Cognitions
The scale items were derived from open-ended interviews about sexual attitudes with heterosexual and homosexual couples. The Attitudes Toward Sexuality Scale (ATSS) was developed to allow the comparison of the sexual attitudes of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 20 and their parents. Items from Calderwood’s Checklist of Attitudes Toward Human Sexuality were modified and an objective scoring system was added. The result was a brief, general …
Sexually Explicit Material and Online Sexual Activity
People have different thoughts and feelings about online sexual activities (OSA). Convergent and divergent validity of the Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale were established in relation to hypersexuality, impulsivity, compulsivity, relationship satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, and beliefs about the changeability of sexual life. Moreover, in a sample of heterosexual students, attitudes toward OSA uniquely predicted arousal-oriented OSA e…
Pleasure, Satisfaction, and Orgasm
The New Sexual Satisfaction Scale are multi-dimensional self-report scales designed to measure sexual satisfaction in both clinical and non-clinical samples. The Interpersonal Exchange Model of Sexual Satisfaction (IEMSS) Questionnaire assesses the components of the IEMSS, a conceptual framework for understanding sexual satisfaction within relationships. Orgasmic Consistency Scale assesses the consistency of female orgasm during partnered sexual …
Abuse and Pedophilia
The Child Sexual Abuse Scale is a self-report instrument that was developed to measure the occurrence of childhood sexual abuse in adolescent and adult populations. The Empathy for Children Scale was developed to measure an individual’s cognitive and emotional empathy for child victims by rating 75 short statements regarding intensity of feelings, thoughts, and behaviours on a 5-point Likert scale. Three scenarios are used: assessing empathy with…
Adolescents
Adolescents’ Attitudes About Sexual Relationship Rights (SRR) is a 10-item self-report measure of adolescents’ attitudes about their rights in a sexual relationship with a steady partner. It includes two subscales measuring rights to refuse unwanted sexual activity and to express sexual engagement needs. The SRR is intended for use with adolescents regardless of gender, race/ethnicity, relationship experience, sexual experience, and sexual orient…
Gender Identity
The three core items capture sex assigned at birth, gender identity, and lived gender, with the lived gender item completed only by the subset of participants who do not check male–male or female–female for the first two items. The Multidimensional Sex/Gender Measure is a flexible multi-item measure to capture dimensions of sex and gender. The Genderqueer Identity Scale is designed to assess identification and expression of genderqueer and non-bi…
Sociosexuality and Sexual Sensation Seeking
The construct of sociosexuality or sociosexual orientation captures individual differences in the tendency to have casual, uncommitted sexual relationships. The Sociosexual Orientation Inventory has been successfully applied in many published studies from fields as diverse as social, personality, and evolutionary psychology, sexuality research, gender studies, biological anthropology, and cross-cultural research. The Sexual Sensation Seeking Scal…
Sexual Function, Dysfunction, and Difficulties
Assessment of sexual functioning is an important component in many clinical encounters, and in research settings it is increasingly of interest with regard to side effects of new medications. The Sexual Self Efficacy Scale—Erectile Functioning is a brief self-report measure of the cognitive dimension of erectile functioning and adjustment in men. The Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire was developed from patient complaints of sexual dysfu…
Affect and Emotions
The importance of assessing affect to facilitate a better understanding of the relationship between feelings and sexual behaviors, attitudes, and norms has been highlighted by the findings of several researchers. As such, the First Coital Affective Reaction Scale (FCARS) was developed to assess subjects’ reported affective reactions to their first coital experience. Scales used by Byrne et al. and Weis, in their assessment of affect, stimulated t…
Families and Sexuality
The purpose of the Parenting Outcome Expectancy Scale (POES) is to measure the parent’s expectations about the outcomes associated with talking with his/her adolescent about sex-related topics. The POES includes items measuring only self-evaluative and social outcome expectancy (OE) because there are no direct physical OEs that can be associated with discussions about sexuality. In a descriptive study of correlates of sexuality communication, the…
Motivations
The Sexual Motivation Scale is a 24-item self-report measure of the six types of self-regulation proposed by self-determination theory (SDT) in the context of sexual activities: intrinsic motivation, four types of extrinsic motivation (i.e., external, introjected, identified, and integrated), and amotivation. SDT is a broad framework of motivation that delineates internal and external sources of motivation and their role in development and well-b…
Sexual Prejudice
According to the “differences as deficits model” of sexual prejudice, sexual minorities tend to be devalued and tend to be viewed more negatively in comparison to heterosexuals. Recent scholars have conceptualized attitudes toward lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals as multidimensional and wide-ranging. The LGB-Knowledge and Attitudes Scale (KAS) measures respondents’ attitudes and knowledge regarding LGB individuals. The LGB-KAS subscal…
Communication
The Dyadic Sexual Communication Scale (DSC) is a Likert-type scale assessing respondents’ perceptions of the communication process encompassing sexual relationships. The Health Protective Sexual Communication Scale (HPSC) is a self-report scale that assesses how often respondents discuss health protective topics while interacting with a new, first-time sexual partner. The Weighted Topics Measure of Family Sexual Communication (WTM) was developed …
Self-Concept and Self-Esteem
The Sexual Self-Concept Inventory was designed to assess the gender-specific sexual self-concepts of early adolescent girls based on extensive formative work with ethnically diverse samples. The Multidimensional Sexual Self-Concept Questionnaire was developed based on prior work on individual differences in sexuality. The Sexuality Scale is an objective, self-report instrument measuring three aspects of human sexuality: sexual esteem, sexual depr…
Sexual Comfort and Erotophobia/Erotophilia
The Sexual Anxiety Scale was developed to assess individuals’ affective response to sexual cues, or erotophobia/philia. Erotophobia–erotophilia is a construct representing individual differences in learned affective and evaluative responses to sexual cues spanning a negative (erotophobia) to positive (erotophilia) continuum. Erotophobia–erotophilia is a hypothetical personality construct representing a positive-to-negative evaluative response to …
Desire and Interest
Sexual pleasure, satisfaction, and discrepancies between levels of sexual desire or desired frequency of sexual activity have become important areas of focus in sexuality research. Examining multifaceted sexual desire, and whether the factors that make up sexual desire are different between individuals and/or change across context and time remain interesting directions for future work. The Female Sexual Desire Questionnaire was designed to measur…
Gender Roles, Norms, and Expressions
The Women’s Nontraditional Sexuality Questionnaire is based on the Gender Role Strain Paradigm (GRSP) which posits that girls internalize dominant expectations for traditional femininity and experience psychological stress, strain, and conflict as they navigate a binary gendered world. The Male Role Norms Inventory (MRNI) is a measure of masculinity ideologies, a central construct in the GRSP. The Femininity Ideology Scale was created to measure …
Arousal and Arousability
The Sexual Arousability Inventory and the Sexuality Arousability Inventory—Expanded measure sexual arousability and anxiety. Construct validity of the Arousability scale has been demonstrated by consistently high correlations with four criterion variables: awareness of physiological changes during sexual arousal, satisfaction with sexual responsiveness, frequency of intercourse, and total episodes of intercourse before marriage. Small positive co…
Condoms
Consistent use of the male latex condom is an effective method of reducing the risk of transmitting and acquiring many sexually transmitted infections, including HIV and unintended pregnancy; however, consistently using condoms is not sufficient—condoms must be used correctly. The Condom Use Errors/Problems Survey is a comprehensive assessment of errors and problems that people may experience when using male condoms that may lead to condom failur…
Identity and Orientation
The Gay Identity Questionnaire can be used by clinicians and researchers to identify gay men in the developmental stages of “coming out” proposed by Cass in the Homosexual Identity Formation Model. The Measure of Sexual Identity Exploration and Commitment (MoSIEC) is a theoretically based multidimensional measure of the processes of sexual identity development. The MoSIEC is intended for persons of any sexual orientation identity. The Sexual Orie…
Sadism and Masochism
The Massachusetts Treatment Center Sadism Scale (MTCSS) was developed to measure severe sexual sadism through behavioral markers. Although sexual sadism can be theoretically present among everyone but on a different level, the MTCSS was developed to measure non-consensual severe sexual sadism among adult sexual offenders. The Sexual Sadism Scale is a structured professional judgment instrument for assessing non-consensual, severe sexual sadism in…
Sexual Scripts and the Sexual Double Standard
The purpose of the Double Standard Scale is to measure acceptance of the traditional sexual double standard (SDS). The SDS Scale has been used to test predictions about how women’s sexual behaviors relate to women’s perceptions of men’s acceptance of the SDS. Endorsement of the SDS was a key measure of criterion validity of the measure, as the SDS is theorized as being rooted in supporting traditional sexual scripts. Belief in token resistance wa…
Clinical Self-Efficacy
The Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Affirmative Counseling Self-Efficacy Inventory (LGB-CSI) measures participants’ self-efficacy to perform LGB-affirmative counseling behaviors. Exposure of psychotherapists and trainees to four sources of self-efficacy (performance accomplishments, vicarious learning, verbal reinforcement, and physiological states/reactions) is posited to foster increases in LGB-affirmative counselor self-efficacy. An optimal level o…
Truth and consequences
Men report more permissive sexual attitudes and behavior than do women. This experiment tested whether these differences might result from false accommodation to gender norms (distorted reporting consistent with gender stereotypes). Participants completed questionnaires under three conditions. Sex differences in self-reported sexual behavior were negligible in a bogus pipeline condition in which participants believed lying could be detected, mode…
Longitudinal Associations Among Relationship Satisfaction, Sexual Satisfaction, and Frequency of Sex in Early Marriage
Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures
This classic and invaluable reference handbook, written for sex researchers and their students, has now been completely revised in a new, fourth edition. It remains the only easy and efficient way for researchers to learn about, evaluate, and compare instruments that have previously been used in sex research.
Gender Differences in Response to Sexual Expectancies and Changes in Sexual Frequency
The Power of Prestige
A comparison of various measures of family sexual communication
Research on the impact of parent‐child communication about sexuality has yielded contradictory and inconsistent results, perhaps because of the lack of a standard measure of the concept. Nine previously used scales which were purported to measure family sexual communication were administered to 363 college students and their parents to compare the reliability and validity of the various measures. The scales varied in their psychometric properties…
Sex on the Brain
It is commonly believed that men think about sex much more often than do women, but the empirical evidence in this area is fairly weak. By means of a golf tally counter, 283 college students kept track of their thoughts pertaining to food, sleep, or sex for one week. Males reported significantly more need-based cognitions overall, but there was no significant interaction between sex of participant and type of cognition recorded. Therefore, althou…
The impact of socially conveyed norms on the reporting of sexual behavior and attitudes by men and women
A scale for the comparison of the sexual attitudes of adolescents and their parents
We developed a 14-item Attitudes Toward Sexuality Scale (ATSS) to compare the sexual attitudes of early, middle, and late adolescents and their parents. One hundred forty-one adolescents between the ages of 12 and 20 and their parents completed a questionnaire consisting of the ATSS and demographic information. The Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient for the adolescents was .75, and for the parents it was .84. A principal components analysis r…
The relationship between parent‐child communication about sexuality and college students' sexual behavior and attitudes as a function of parental proximity
Although some researchers have indicated that when parents are the main source of sex education, their adolescent children tend to engage in less pre? marital sexual activity (Lewis, 1973; Spanier, 1977) and are more Ukely to use birth control (Fox & Inazu, 1980; Furstenberg, 1971), more recently several authors have raised doubts about the extent of family influence on adolescent sexuaUty (DarUng & Hicks, 1982; Herceg-Baron & Furstenberg, 1982; …
Gender Roles and Pressure to be Truthful
Reliability and validity of the sexuality scale
The Sexuality Scale (SS; Snell & Papini, 1989) was designed to measure sexual‐esteem, (the dispositional tendency to evaluate positively one's capacity to relate sexually to others), sexual‐depression, (the chronic tendency to feel depressed about the sexual aspects of one's life), and sexual‐preoccupation, (the persistent tendency to be absorbed and obsessed with sexual matters). The purpose of the present research was to provide evidence from t…
Family communication and the sexual behavior and attitudes of college students
Sex of Experimenter and Social Norm Effects on Reports of Sexual Behavior in Young Men and Women
An Extension of the Findings of Moore, Peterson, and Furstenberg (1986) regarding Family Sexual Communication and Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Terri D. Fisher, An Extension of the Findings of Moore, Peterson, and Furstenberg (1986) regarding Family Sexual Communication and Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Aug., 1989), pp. 637-639
Variables in addition to gender that help to explain differences in perceived sexual interest
Variables in addition to gender that might be related to perceptions of sexual intent were examined. College students reported the degree to which they thought characters in various interpersonal situations were indicating sexual interest and completed measures of attitudes toward women, sexual experience, number of sexual partners, hypermasculinity or hyperfemininity, and social desirability responding. Small but significant gender differences w…
The Effect of Reference Groups, Opinion Polls, and Attitude Polarization on Attitude Formation and Change
Effet des normes du groupe de reference sur les attitudes individuelles lorsque ces normes ont ete transmises a l'individu via les resultats d'un sondage d'opinion. On est parti de l'hypothese selon laquelle lesdites normes du groupe de reference seraient modulees selon les polarisations de l'attitude individuelle de depart. Dans un echantillon de 180 etudiants de premiere annee de psychologie les sujets a qui on a fait connaitre les resultats (i…
Using the bogus pipeline to investigate grandiose narcissism
Confessions of a closet sex researcher
(1989). Confessions of a closet sex researcher. The Journal of Sex Research: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 144-147
Orgasmic latency and subjective ratings of erotic stimuli in male and female subjects
There are few ways in which comparable measures of sexual arousal may be obtained from males and females. Because latency to orgasm is an objective measure that is equivalent for both sexes, it may be a useful dependent variable for the investigation of response patterns and differences in men and women. To explore this possibility 24 men and 18 women participated in experimental sessions during which they masturbated to orgasm while viewing sexu…
Mind-Body Revisited
Male and female undergraduates were administered the Gough-Heilbrun Adjective Check List and a questionnaire assessing menstrual regularity. The females' reported regularity was positively correlated with scales for self-control, order, and endurance, demonstrating that women who describe themselves as orderly, methodical, persevering, and dependable are more likely to report a regular menstrual cycle than women reporting an irregular cycle. In c…
Orgasmic latency and subjective ratings of erotic stimuli in male and female subjects
There are few ways in which comparable measures of sexual arousal may be obtained from males and females. Because latency to orgasm is an objective measure that is equivalent for both sexes, it may be a useful dependent variable for the investigation of response patterns and differences in men and women. To explore this possibility 24 men and 18 women participated in experimental sessions during which they masturbated to orgasm while viewing sexu…
The Effect of Reference Groups, Opinion Polls, and Attitude Polarization on Attitude Formation and Change
Effet des normes du groupe de reference sur les attitudes individuelles lorsque ces normes ont ete transmises a l'individu via les resultats d'un sondage d'opinion. On est parti de l'hypothese selon laquelle lesdites normes du groupe de reference seraient modulees selon les polarisations de l'attitude individuelle de depart. Dans un echantillon de 180 etudiants de premiere annee de psychologie les sujets a qui on a fait connaitre les resultats (i…
Family communication and the sexual behavior and attitudes of college students
The relationship between parent‐child communication about sexuality and college students' sexual behavior and attitudes as a function of parental proximity
Although some researchers have indicated that when parents are the main source of sex education, their adolescent children tend to engage in less pre? marital sexual activity (Lewis, 1973; Spanier, 1977) and are more Ukely to use birth control (Fox & Inazu, 1980; Furstenberg, 1971), more recently several authors have raised doubts about the extent of family influence on adolescent sexuaUty (DarUng & Hicks, 1982; Herceg-Baron & Furstenberg, 1982; …
A scale for the comparison of the sexual attitudes of adolescents and their parents
We developed a 14-item Attitudes Toward Sexuality Scale (ATSS) to compare the sexual attitudes of early, middle, and late adolescents and their parents. One hundred forty-one adolescents between the ages of 12 and 20 and their parents completed a questionnaire consisting of the ATSS and demographic information. The Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient for the adolescents was .75, and for the parents it was .84. A principal components analysis r…
Confessions of a closet sex researcher
(1989). Confessions of a closet sex researcher. The Journal of Sex Research: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 144-147
An Extension of the Findings of Moore, Peterson, and Furstenberg (1986) regarding Family Sexual Communication and Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Terri D. Fisher, An Extension of the Findings of Moore, Peterson, and Furstenberg (1986) regarding Family Sexual Communication and Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Aug., 1989), pp. 637-639
Reliability and validity of the sexuality scale
The Sexuality Scale (SS; Snell & Papini, 1989) was designed to measure sexual‐esteem, (the dispositional tendency to evaluate positively one's capacity to relate sexually to others), sexual‐depression, (the chronic tendency to feel depressed about the sexual aspects of one's life), and sexual‐preoccupation, (the persistent tendency to be absorbed and obsessed with sexual matters). The purpose of the present research was to provide evidence from t…
Sexuality in Close Relationships
The multidimensional sexuality questionnaire
A comparison of various measures of family sexual communication
Research on the impact of parent‐child communication about sexuality has yielded contradictory and inconsistent results, perhaps because of the lack of a standard measure of the concept. Nine previously used scales which were purported to measure family sexual communication were administered to 363 college students and their parents to compare the reliability and validity of the various measures. The scales varied in their psychometric properties…
Variables in addition to gender that help to explain differences in perceived sexual interest
Variables in addition to gender that might be related to perceptions of sexual intent were examined. College students reported the degree to which they thought characters in various interpersonal situations were indicating sexual interest and completed measures of attitudes toward women, sexual experience, number of sexual partners, hypermasculinity or hyperfemininity, and social desirability responding. Small but significant gender differences w…
Truth and consequences
Men report more permissive sexual attitudes and behavior than do women. This experiment tested whether these differences might result from false accommodation to gender norms (distorted reporting consistent with gender stereotypes). Participants completed questionnaires under three conditions. Sex differences in self-reported sexual behavior were negligible in a bogus pipeline condition in which participants believed lying could be detected, mode…
Sex of Experimenter and Social Norm Effects on Reports of Sexual Behavior in Young Men and Women
The Power of Prestige
Gender Differences in Response to Sexual Expectancies and Changes in Sexual Frequency
The impact of socially conveyed norms on the reporting of sexual behavior and attitudes by men and women
Sex on the Brain
It is commonly believed that men think about sex much more often than do women, but the empirical evidence in this area is fairly weak. By means of a golf tally counter, 283 college students kept track of their thoughts pertaining to food, sleep, or sex for one week. Males reported significantly more need-based cognitions overall, but there was no significant interaction between sex of participant and type of cognition recorded. Therefore, althou…
Gender Roles and Pressure to be Truthful
Using the bogus pipeline to investigate grandiose narcissism
Longitudinal Associations Among Relationship Satisfaction, Sexual Satisfaction, and Frequency of Sex in Early Marriage
Attitudes, Beliefs, and Cognitions
The scale items were derived from open-ended interviews about sexual attitudes with heterosexual and homosexual couples. The Attitudes Toward Sexuality Scale (ATSS) was developed to allow the comparison of the sexual attitudes of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 20 and their parents. Items from Calderwood’s Checklist of Attitudes Toward Human Sexuality were modified and an objective scoring system was added. The result was a brief, general …
Sexually Explicit Material and Online Sexual Activity
People have different thoughts and feelings about online sexual activities (OSA). Convergent and divergent validity of the Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale were established in relation to hypersexuality, impulsivity, compulsivity, relationship satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, and beliefs about the changeability of sexual life. Moreover, in a sample of heterosexual students, attitudes toward OSA uniquely predicted arousal-oriented OSA e…
Pleasure, Satisfaction, and Orgasm
The New Sexual Satisfaction Scale are multi-dimensional self-report scales designed to measure sexual satisfaction in both clinical and non-clinical samples. The Interpersonal Exchange Model of Sexual Satisfaction (IEMSS) Questionnaire assesses the components of the IEMSS, a conceptual framework for understanding sexual satisfaction within relationships. Orgasmic Consistency Scale assesses the consistency of female orgasm during partnered sexual …
Psychology (48 works) · Social Psychology (25 works) · Developmental psychology (22 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (14 works) · Human sexuality (14 works) · Sexual behavior (14 works) · Medicine (13 works)