The Digital Sexual Life
History Calendar (d/SLHC) is a Web-based platform for collecting young adults'
sexual histories. In addition to collecting diverse data, the d/SLHC was
designed to benefit participants by enabling reflection on their sexual and relationship
experiences in the context of other life events and circumstances.
In a pilot study of the d/SLHC, survey data were collected to test whether creating a d/SLHC timeline had any impact on sexual well-being. A sample of 18- to 25-year-old participants recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) completed an online survey about sexuality and relationships. Of those, 113 also completed d/SLHC timelines and 262 served as a comparison group. Six months later, participants from both groups were invited to complete a follow-up survey (total N = 249).
Repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) results indicated that participants who completed d/SLHC timelines exhibited higher sexual esteem immediately following d/SLHC completion and at follow-up. No changes in sexual esteem were observed in the comparison group, and there were no differences between the groups with regard to sexual health behaviors and outcomes.
These findings suggest that sexuality studies may have the potential to yield not only rich data for researchers but also rich experiences for participants.
In a pilot study of the d/SLHC, survey data were collected to test whether creating a d/SLHC timeline had any impact on sexual well-being. A sample of 18- to 25-year-old participants recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) completed an online survey about sexuality and relationships. Of those, 113 also completed d/SLHC timelines and 262 served as a comparison group. Six months later, participants from both groups were invited to complete a follow-up survey (total N = 249).
Repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) results indicated that participants who completed d/SLHC timelines exhibited higher sexual esteem immediately following d/SLHC completion and at follow-up. No changes in sexual esteem were observed in the comparison group, and there were no differences between the groups with regard to sexual health behaviors and outcomes.
These findings suggest that sexuality studies may have the potential to yield not only rich data for researchers but also rich experiences for participants.
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- 1 School of Social Work, University at Buffalo.
- J Sex Res. 2016 Mar 3:1-12.
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