Affiliation:
1. Thazhathethil H, Karikkad PO, Karikkad
2. School of Behavioural Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University
Abstract
Sexual assertiveness is an important element in caring for oneself and maintaining sexual health in situations involving unwanted and unsafe sexual contact. In contrast, females lacking sexual assertiveness may be more likely to experience sexual dysfunction and to be coerced in sexual relationships (Alvarado SLL, Van Parys H, Jerves E, and Enzlin P, 2020; Zhang H et al., 2021 ). The present study was intended to translate the scale of Sexual Assertiveness of Women by Morokoff et al. (1997) into Malayalam. On the standardization procedure, some items lack discrimination power and difficulty index. The overall scale has good reliability (Cronbach’s alpha 0.81, split-half reliability 0.65) and validity. In addition, the study also aimed to examine the sexual assertiveness of women in Kerala. The study participants were women who are married or having a partner and those who are having frequent sex. The data was collected randomly from Kerala. The total sample size was 100. The statistical techniques used were descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, and one-way ANOVA. On the whole, the sexual assertiveness of women in Kerala was low. The religion and education of women have a great role in determining sexual assertiveness.