The Israeli Sexual Behavior Inventory (ISBI): Scale construction and preliminary validation

This study describes the construction and preliminary validation of the Isr aeli Sexual Behavior Inventory (ISBI). The ISBI was primarily designed to a ssess the impact of sexual problems, chronic illness and disability on sexu al functioning and experience. Scales were designed to measure three areas of healthy sexual functioning and three areas of sexual dysfunction for bot h males and females. To provide normative data to which clinical samples ca n be compared, a large randomly selected sample from art adult male and fem ale population was used for scale construction and preliminary validation. Scale reliabilities, intercorrelations between the ISBI scales, comparisons between the above sample and a clinical sample provide evidence of the ISB I's reliability and validity.