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Oklahoma Sample. Q-Sort vignettes were pretested and reworded so that there was no difference in behavior for male and female vignette characters. The main study then proceeded as follows: participants were recruited from the selected classes and times scheduled for participation. Upon arrival, participants were greeted by an experimenter. Each participant was seated at a computer terminal, and asked to read and sign a consent form. To ensure anonymity, each respondent was instructed to use his or her questionnaire number on all materials and not to write their name anywhere on the testing materials. The experimentor then verified participant understanding of the instructions. Participants first completed the q-sort via computer administration of the Individual Self Perception Inventory (ISPI) and then the pencil and paper measures.
ISPI is a computerized, forced choice Q-Sort procedure developed by Knight, Frederickson, and Martin (1987) from Stephenson's Q-methodology paradigm (1953). Respondents rated each of the following: Self, Idea Self, Typical Male, Typical Female, Abstinent Male Vignette, Abstinent Female Vignette, Permissiveness with Affection Male Vignette, Permissiveness with Affection Female Vignette, Casual Sex Male Vignette, Casual Sex Female Vignette, Married Couple Vignette. For each character rated, the respondent sorted 18 adjectives drawn from Anderson (1968) into seven categories based on the similarity of the adjective to the character being rated.
The remaining 6 adjectives are grouped together. This results in a quasinormal distribution of scores for each character that is rated.
| Most like Self | next most like self | next most like self | not chosen | next least like self | next least like self | Least like self | |
| Adjective is scored | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Number of Adjectives | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Correlations were calculated between how participants used the 18 adjectives to describe each character rated.
Texas Sample. Pencil and paper questionnaires were administered to groups of 10 to 50 respondents in a large classroom. Informed consent was obtained and as in the Oklahoma sample, respondents were guaranteed anonymity and were free to withdraw at any time without loss of research credits. Respondents then completed the q-sorts and then the questionnaries. In order to control for sequencing effects and possible carry over effects in the order of presentation of the sexuality standard vignette characters a between subjects approach was used. Respondents rated: self, ideal self, typical male, typical female, and a randomly assigned vignette character. The q-sort procedure was the same as for the Oklahoma sample, except that it was not computerized.
For Both the Oklahoma and Texas sample Q-Sorts. Correlations were computed between the order in which each participant used the 18 adjectives to describe each of the characters that were rated. Positive correlations indicate that the participant sorted the adjectives in a similar order for the two characters. Negative correlations indicate that the participant sorted the adjectives in opposite order for the two characters. Correlations near zero indicate that there was no relationship between how they sorted the adjectives between the two characters.
The Love Test Sample. See the Love Test Findings page for information on the sample.
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