Relationships between the Modified Sexuality Standards Scale and the Relationship Requirements Rating Scale.

In order to simplify presentation of the data, responses from the RRRS item were collapsed into three groups:

• people who answered "Casual Acquaintance" or "Liking" were collapsed into one group,
• people who answered "Love" were collapsed into one group and
• people who said "Engagement" or "Marriage" were collapsed into one group.

I wanted to see how similar this three category grouping scheme would be to the original 5 category item. The two grouping schemes were correlated .96 in the Oklahoma sample and .95 in the Texas sample indicating that the 3 category scheme was acceptably close to the 5 item grouping.

The 3 category grouping scheme was also highly correlated with the 5 item Modified Sexuality Standards Scale r = .75, p < .05).

Modified Sexuality Standards Scale by Sexuality Standard Grouping
Sample	< Love	Love	> Love	f	df	p
Texas	25.3a	17.8b	7.8c	245.5	(2, 356)	<0.001

Note: Means with different subscripts are significantly different using Tukey HSD post hoc comparisons (p < .05).

People who require engagement or marriage prior to sex scored lower on the Modified Sexuality Standards Scale than did those who require only love prior to the onset of sexual relations who in turn scored lower than those who require friendship or casual acquaintance prior to the onset of sexual intercourse.

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