APPROVAL MOTIVATION AND SEXUAL DAYDREAMING

This study examined the relationship between approval motivation and s exual daydreaming. College students were administered the Social Desir ability Scale and the Sexual Daydreaming Subscale of the Imaginal Proc esses Inventory. High-approval-motivated subjects reported significant ly less sexual daydreaming than low-approval-motivated subjects. In li ght of previous research, the present results are discussed in terms o f the apparent discrepancy between the overt and covert sexual activit y of high- and low-approval-motivated individuals.