a critique on the usage of mosher’s sexual guilt scale in psychology andpsychiatry researches in islamic societies: cultural differences in the meaning ofsexual guilt

Due to the increasing use of questionnaires as simple and accessible tools to measurepsychological constructs it is necessary to evaluate these tools in terms of cross-cultural adaptation.therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the cross-cultural adaptation of the mouser sexualguilt questionnaire. this research is a descriptive cross-sectional study. the statistical population of thestudy consisted of all sexual health psychologists who either they were seminary educated (educated athawzah) or educated abroad. the study sample was selected in a purposeful manner. each groupconsisted of 20 experts who they expressed their views on the items of the mosher sex-guilt scale. datawere analyzed using independent t-test for independent groups. the results showed that there is asignificant difference between the seminaries educated specialists and educated abroad specialists. inother words, the thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that indicate sexual guilt differ between the two groupsof professionals. sexual guilt is a culture-bounded concept. behavior, thoughts, and beliefs that areconsidered as sexual guilt in one culture and their existence can harm one's sexual health may beconsidered acceptable in another culture.