Validity and Reliability of the Persian Sexual Self-Efficacy Scale Functioning in Female

Objective: this study is an attempt to investigate validity and reliability of the persian version of sexual self-efficacy scale-female functioning in volunteer married women in married dormitories and non-dormitories of shahid beheshti university of tehran, iran. methods: the current study is descriptive of type survey. the sample consisted of 160 volunteer married women in married dormitories and non-dormitories of shahid beheshti university of tehran, who were selected by a convenience sampling method and a structured clinical interview based on dsm-iv-tr after voluntary obtaining informed consent. they completed 37-item sexual self-efficacy scale-female functioning (sses-f). the data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis by spss-pc (v.16). results: the results of exploratory factor analysis on sses-f identified 4 factors. cronbach´s α coefficients was α=0.93 for the entire measure (28 items), with alphas ranging from 0.80 to 0.92 for the individual factors. conclusion: given the validity and reliability of the sses-f scale, with regard to the validityand reliability of the sses-f, this scale can be used in clinical settings and research studies, particularly in prevention and increasing the competence of legal marital relations.