John Kitchener Sakaluk
Biographic Data
| ID | 761122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Kitchener Sakaluk |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Kitchener |
| FAMILY NAME | Sakaluk |
| SIGNATURE | SAKALUK J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2515-9822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A Renewal of Dyadic Structural Equation Modeling With Latent Variables: Clarifications, Methodological Advantages, and New Directions
Researchers interested in the quantitative analysis of data from dyads must select a preferred statistical framework. In this review, we focus on one option that has seen relatively modest adoption: dyadic structural equation modeling with latent variables. We begin by distinguishing dyadic SEM from alternate, neighboring, and hybridized frameworks, before sharing our view on the unique—and in our opinion, considerable—value‐proposition of the dy…
A Multi‐Level Meta‐Analysis Comparing Relationship Norm Strength of LGB and Heterosexual Relationships
LGB people have historical and contemporary experiences of discrimination, stigma, and violence. Research on social groups suggests that norms, rules, and expectations for group conduct emerge to provide responses to group threats, for example, oppression of LGB individuals, and arise from cultural expectations and agreements between partners. While previous research demonstrated that norm content , specific rules, and expectations in relationshi…
New Year, New Initiatives for the Journal of Sex Research
How Eird Is Sex Research: A Commentary and Reanalysis of Klein et al. (2021)
Klein, Savaș, and Conley (2021) argued that sexual science is overdependent on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) samples. Though we agree that sexual science needs to increase its generalizability and inclusivity, we describe concerns with their measurement strategy of categorizing samples as WEIRD or Not WEIRD based on the country from which a sample was drawn. Reanalyzing their data with publicly available global m…
Sameness and Difference in Psychological Research on Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships: The Need for Invariance and Equivalence Testing
Response to Commentaries on Sakaluk (2020)
Dyadic measurement invariance and its importance for replicability in romantic relationship science
Comparisons of group means, variances, correlations, and/or regression slopes involving psychological variables rely on an assumption of measurement invariance—that the latent variables under investigation have equivalent meaning and measurement across group. When measures are noninvariant, replicability suffers, as comparisons are either conceptually meaningless, or hindered by inflated Type I error rates. We propose that the failure to account …
When Tonight Is Not the Night: Sexual Rejection Behaviors and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships
In most long-term romantic relationships, partners experience sexual conflicts of interest in which one partner declines the other partner’s sexual advances. We investigated the distinct ways people reject a partner’s advances (i.e., with reassuring, hostile, assertive, and deflecting behaviors) in Studies 1 and 2. Using cross-sectional (Study 3) and daily experience methods (Study 4), we investigated how perceptions of a partner’s rejection beha…
Getting Serious About the Assessment and Promotion of Replicable Sexual Science: A Commentary on Wisman and Shrira (2020) and Lorenz (2020)
The link between sacrifice and relational and personal well-being: A meta-analysis
Prosocial behavior is often thought to bring benefits to individuals and relationships. Do such benefits exist when prosocial behavior is costly for the individual, such as when people are sacrificing for their partner or relationship? Although different theoretical accounts would predict that sacrifice is either positively or negatively associated with personal and relational well-being, empirical work in this regard has been inconclusive. We co…
On the strength of ties that bind: Measuring the strength of norms in romantic relationships
In seven studies ( ncross-sectional = 1,699, nlongitudinal = 118), we developed a measure of relationship norm strength defined as qualities that make the rules and expectations in romantic couples more or less likely to be followed. In our six cross-sectional samples, the resulting Relationship Norm Strength Questionnaire (RNSQ) yielded consistent norm tractability, norm agreement, anticipated punishment for deviance, and norm explicitness facto…
Expanding Statistical Frontiers in Sexual Science: Taxometric, Invariance, and Equivalence Testing
Sexual scientists must choose from among myriad methodological and analytical approaches when investigating their research questions. How can scholars learn whether sexualities are discrete or continuous? How is sexuality constructed? And to what extent are sexuality-related groups similar to or different from one another? Though commonplace, quantitative attempts at addressing these research questions require users to possess an increasingly dee…
Are single people a stigmatized 'group'? Evidence from examinations of social identity, entitativity, and perceived responsibility
Are single people a stigmatized ‘group’? Evidence from examinations of social identity, entitativity, and perceived responsibility
How gender, age, and socioeconomic status predict parenting goal pursuit
There are many factors that may influence parenting, from societal norms and expectations, dispositional differences, experience and maturity, and availability of resources. In the current research, we examined how stable demographic characteristics associated with these different factors predict the goals parents pursue with their children. We examined whether the pursuit of four parenting goals-child love and security, child development, parent…
Promoting Transparent Reporting of Conflicts of Interests and Statistical Analyses at The Journal of Sex Research
The publication process for scientific communication is iterative. Researchers first attempt to convince editors and reviewers of claims made about the variables under study; editors and reviewers
A Methodological Review of Exploratory Factor Analysis in Sexuality Research: Used Practices, Best Practices, and Data Analysis Resources
Sexuality researchers frequently use exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to illuminate the distinguishable theoretical constructs assessed by a set of variables. EFA entails a substantive number of analytic decisions to be made with respect to sample size determination, and how factors are extracted, rotated, and retained. The available analytic options, however, are not all equally empirically rigorous. We discuss the commonly available options fo…
Exploring Small, Confirming Big: An alternative system to The New Statistics for advancing cumulative and replicable psychological research
The Causal Effects of Relational Security and Insecurity on Condom Use Attitudes and Acquisition Behavior
Problems with recall-based attachment style priming paradigms: Exclusion criteria, sample bias, and reduced power
Attachment styles are often primed by having participants recall and describe a relationship that is prototypical of a given attachment style. Researchers may exclude participants who cannot recall such a relationship or who describe relationships that do not conform to the assigned prime. I suggest that excluding participants is untenable and may threaten a study's validity. In the present research, I examine predictors of exclusion from an atta…
Dominant Heterosexual Sexual Scripts in Emerging Adulthood: Conceptualization and Measurement
Sexual script research (Simon & Gagnon 1969 , 1986 ) bourgeoned following Simon and Gagnon's groundbreaking work. Empirical measurement of sexual script adherence has been limited, however, as no measures exist that have undergone rigorous development and validation. We conducted three studies to examine current dominant sexual scripts of heterosexual adults and to develop a measure of endorsement of these scripts. In Study 1, we conducted three …
Premarital Sexual Standards and Sociosexuality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Cohort Differences
Factors Influencing University Students’ Explicit and Implicit Sexual Double Standards
Quantitative research has resulted in inconsistent evidence for the existence of a sexual double standard, leading Crawford and Popp ( 2003 ) to issue a call for methodological innovation. The implicit association test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998 ) is a measure that may provide a means to examine the double standard without the contamination of the demand characteristics and social desirability biases that plague self-report researc…
Dominant Heterosexual Sexual Scripts in Emerging Adulthood: Conceptualization and Measurement
Sexual script research (Simon & Gagnon 1969 , 1986 ) bourgeoned following Simon and Gagnon's groundbreaking work. Empirical measurement of sexual script adherence has been limited, however, as no measures exist that have undergone rigorous development and validation. We conducted three studies to examine current dominant sexual scripts of heterosexual adults and to develop a measure of endorsement of these scripts. In Study 1, we conducted three …
Factors Influencing University Students’ Explicit and Implicit Sexual Double Standards
Quantitative research has resulted in inconsistent evidence for the existence of a sexual double standard, leading Crawford and Popp ( 2003 ) to issue a call for methodological innovation. The implicit association test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998 ) is a measure that may provide a means to examine the double standard without the contamination of the demand characteristics and social desirability biases that plague self-report researc…
Exploring Small, Confirming Big: An alternative system to The New Statistics for advancing cumulative and replicable psychological research
Dyadic measurement invariance and its importance for replicability in romantic relationship science
Comparisons of group means, variances, correlations, and/or regression slopes involving psychological variables rely on an assumption of measurement invariance—that the latent variables under investigation have equivalent meaning and measurement across group. When measures are noninvariant, replicability suffers, as comparisons are either conceptually meaningless, or hindered by inflated Type I error rates. We propose that the failure to account …
Are single people a stigmatized ‘group’? Evidence from examinations of social identity, entitativity, and perceived responsibility
Expanding Statistical Frontiers in Sexual Science: Taxometric, Invariance, and Equivalence Testing
Sexual scientists must choose from among myriad methodological and analytical approaches when investigating their research questions. How can scholars learn whether sexualities are discrete or continuous? How is sexuality constructed? And to what extent are sexuality-related groups similar to or different from one another? Though commonplace, quantitative attempts at addressing these research questions require users to possess an increasingly dee…
Premarital Sexual Standards and Sociosexuality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Cohort Differences
Problems with recall-based attachment style priming paradigms: Exclusion criteria, sample bias, and reduced power
Attachment styles are often primed by having participants recall and describe a relationship that is prototypical of a given attachment style. Researchers may exclude participants who cannot recall such a relationship or who describe relationships that do not conform to the assigned prime. I suggest that excluding participants is untenable and may threaten a study's validity. In the present research, I examine predictors of exclusion from an atta…
The link between sacrifice and relational and personal well-being: A meta-analysis
Prosocial behavior is often thought to bring benefits to individuals and relationships. Do such benefits exist when prosocial behavior is costly for the individual, such as when people are sacrificing for their partner or relationship? Although different theoretical accounts would predict that sacrifice is either positively or negatively associated with personal and relational well-being, empirical work in this regard has been inconclusive. We co…
On the strength of ties that bind: Measuring the strength of norms in romantic relationships
In seven studies ( ncross-sectional = 1,699, nlongitudinal = 118), we developed a measure of relationship norm strength defined as qualities that make the rules and expectations in romantic couples more or less likely to be followed. In our six cross-sectional samples, the resulting Relationship Norm Strength Questionnaire (RNSQ) yielded consistent norm tractability, norm agreement, anticipated punishment for deviance, and norm explicitness facto…
Are single people a stigmatized 'group'? Evidence from examinations of social identity, entitativity, and perceived responsibility
How gender, age, and socioeconomic status predict parenting goal pursuit
There are many factors that may influence parenting, from societal norms and expectations, dispositional differences, experience and maturity, and availability of resources. In the current research, we examined how stable demographic characteristics associated with these different factors predict the goals parents pursue with their children. We examined whether the pursuit of four parenting goals-child love and security, child development, parent…
How Eird Is Sex Research: A Commentary and Reanalysis of Klein et al. (2021)
Klein, Savaș, and Conley (2021) argued that sexual science is overdependent on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) samples. Though we agree that sexual science needs to increase its generalizability and inclusivity, we describe concerns with their measurement strategy of categorizing samples as WEIRD or Not WEIRD based on the country from which a sample was drawn. Reanalyzing their data with publicly available global m…
Response to Commentaries on Sakaluk (2020)
Promoting Transparent Reporting of Conflicts of Interests and Statistical Analyses at The Journal of Sex Research
The publication process for scientific communication is iterative. Researchers first attempt to convince editors and reviewers of claims made about the variables under study; editors and reviewers
The Causal Effects of Relational Security and Insecurity on Condom Use Attitudes and Acquisition Behavior
Factors Influencing University Students’ Explicit and Implicit Sexual Double Standards
Quantitative research has resulted in inconsistent evidence for the existence of a sexual double standard, leading Crawford and Popp ( 2003 ) to issue a call for methodological innovation. The implicit association test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998 ) is a measure that may provide a means to examine the double standard without the contamination of the demand characteristics and social desirability biases that plague self-report researc…
Dominant Heterosexual Sexual Scripts in Emerging Adulthood: Conceptualization and Measurement
Sexual script research (Simon & Gagnon 1969 , 1986 ) bourgeoned following Simon and Gagnon's groundbreaking work. Empirical measurement of sexual script adherence has been limited, however, as no measures exist that have undergone rigorous development and validation. We conducted three studies to examine current dominant sexual scripts of heterosexual adults and to develop a measure of endorsement of these scripts. In Study 1, we conducted three …
Premarital Sexual Standards and Sociosexuality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Cohort Differences
Problems with recall-based attachment style priming paradigms: Exclusion criteria, sample bias, and reduced power
Attachment styles are often primed by having participants recall and describe a relationship that is prototypical of a given attachment style. Researchers may exclude participants who cannot recall such a relationship or who describe relationships that do not conform to the assigned prime. I suggest that excluding participants is untenable and may threaten a study's validity. In the present research, I examine predictors of exclusion from an atta…
Exploring Small, Confirming Big: An alternative system to The New Statistics for advancing cumulative and replicable psychological research
The Causal Effects of Relational Security and Insecurity on Condom Use Attitudes and Acquisition Behavior
A Methodological Review of Exploratory Factor Analysis in Sexuality Research: Used Practices, Best Practices, and Data Analysis Resources
Sexuality researchers frequently use exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to illuminate the distinguishable theoretical constructs assessed by a set of variables. EFA entails a substantive number of analytic decisions to be made with respect to sample size determination, and how factors are extracted, rotated, and retained. The available analytic options, however, are not all equally empirically rigorous. We discuss the commonly available options fo…
Promoting Transparent Reporting of Conflicts of Interests and Statistical Analyses at The Journal of Sex Research
The publication process for scientific communication is iterative. Researchers first attempt to convince editors and reviewers of claims made about the variables under study; editors and reviewers
Expanding Statistical Frontiers in Sexual Science: Taxometric, Invariance, and Equivalence Testing
Sexual scientists must choose from among myriad methodological and analytical approaches when investigating their research questions. How can scholars learn whether sexualities are discrete or continuous? How is sexuality constructed? And to what extent are sexuality-related groups similar to or different from one another? Though commonplace, quantitative attempts at addressing these research questions require users to possess an increasingly dee…
Are single people a stigmatized 'group'? Evidence from examinations of social identity, entitativity, and perceived responsibility
Are single people a stigmatized ‘group’? Evidence from examinations of social identity, entitativity, and perceived responsibility
How gender, age, and socioeconomic status predict parenting goal pursuit
There are many factors that may influence parenting, from societal norms and expectations, dispositional differences, experience and maturity, and availability of resources. In the current research, we examined how stable demographic characteristics associated with these different factors predict the goals parents pursue with their children. We examined whether the pursuit of four parenting goals-child love and security, child development, parent…
When Tonight Is Not the Night: Sexual Rejection Behaviors and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships
In most long-term romantic relationships, partners experience sexual conflicts of interest in which one partner declines the other partner’s sexual advances. We investigated the distinct ways people reject a partner’s advances (i.e., with reassuring, hostile, assertive, and deflecting behaviors) in Studies 1 and 2. Using cross-sectional (Study 3) and daily experience methods (Study 4), we investigated how perceptions of a partner’s rejection beha…
Getting Serious About the Assessment and Promotion of Replicable Sexual Science: A Commentary on Wisman and Shrira (2020) and Lorenz (2020)
The link between sacrifice and relational and personal well-being: A meta-analysis
Prosocial behavior is often thought to bring benefits to individuals and relationships. Do such benefits exist when prosocial behavior is costly for the individual, such as when people are sacrificing for their partner or relationship? Although different theoretical accounts would predict that sacrifice is either positively or negatively associated with personal and relational well-being, empirical work in this regard has been inconclusive. We co…
On the strength of ties that bind: Measuring the strength of norms in romantic relationships
In seven studies ( ncross-sectional = 1,699, nlongitudinal = 118), we developed a measure of relationship norm strength defined as qualities that make the rules and expectations in romantic couples more or less likely to be followed. In our six cross-sectional samples, the resulting Relationship Norm Strength Questionnaire (RNSQ) yielded consistent norm tractability, norm agreement, anticipated punishment for deviance, and norm explicitness facto…
Sameness and Difference in Psychological Research on Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships: The Need for Invariance and Equivalence Testing
Response to Commentaries on Sakaluk (2020)
Dyadic measurement invariance and its importance for replicability in romantic relationship science
Comparisons of group means, variances, correlations, and/or regression slopes involving psychological variables rely on an assumption of measurement invariance—that the latent variables under investigation have equivalent meaning and measurement across group. When measures are noninvariant, replicability suffers, as comparisons are either conceptually meaningless, or hindered by inflated Type I error rates. We propose that the failure to account …
New Year, New Initiatives for the Journal of Sex Research
How Eird Is Sex Research: A Commentary and Reanalysis of Klein et al. (2021)
Klein, Savaș, and Conley (2021) argued that sexual science is overdependent on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) samples. Though we agree that sexual science needs to increase its generalizability and inclusivity, we describe concerns with their measurement strategy of categorizing samples as WEIRD or Not WEIRD based on the country from which a sample was drawn. Reanalyzing their data with publicly available global m…
A Renewal of Dyadic Structural Equation Modeling With Latent Variables: Clarifications, Methodological Advantages, and New Directions
Researchers interested in the quantitative analysis of data from dyads must select a preferred statistical framework. In this review, we focus on one option that has seen relatively modest adoption: dyadic structural equation modeling with latent variables. We begin by distinguishing dyadic SEM from alternate, neighboring, and hybridized frameworks, before sharing our view on the unique—and in our opinion, considerable—value‐proposition of the dy…
A Multi‐Level Meta‐Analysis Comparing Relationship Norm Strength of LGB and Heterosexual Relationships
LGB people have historical and contemporary experiences of discrimination, stigma, and violence. Research on social groups suggests that norms, rules, and expectations for group conduct emerge to provide responses to group threats, for example, oppression of LGB individuals, and arise from cultural expectations and agreements between partners. While previous research demonstrated that norm content , specific rules, and expectations in relationshi…
Psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)