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The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)-a composite index of 53 items, each of which is measured on a five-point Likert scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely)-was used as a measure of mental health; an increased BSI score signifies greater emotional distress. antihypertensives, antidepressants), (d) diabetes, (e) hypertension, (f) endorsement of sexual difficulties, (g) unstable psychopathology (determined by the Brief Symptom Inventory of the Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory), and (h) lack of prior sexual experience. The Brief Symptom Inventory (Derogatis, 1984), the fourth questionnaire, is a shortened form of the Symptom Checklist--90-R (SCL-90-R) and was used for our purposes to measure tendencies of somatization (SOM), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), depression (DEP), anxiety (ANX), as well as the unrelated disorders hostility (HOS), interpersonal sensitivity (IS), paranoid ideation (PI), and psychoticism (PSY), which in our study served to establish discriminant validity. |
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