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A Modification of the Sexual Orientation Method and an Automated Technique for Presentation and Scoring
Author(s) -
SAMBROOKS JEAN E.,
MacCULLOCH M. J.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1973.tb00863.x
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , psychology , orientation (vector space) , sexual orientation , pencil (optics) , clinical psychology , applied psychology , social psychology , medicine , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , engineering , radiology
A computer‐assisted psychometric system (C.A.P.S.) for automated presentation of psychometric tests and questionnaires is described, and some of its clinical applications are discussed. The system has been used to present a modification of the widely used Sexual Orientation Method (S.O.M.) of Feldman et al . (1966). This questionnaire was designed to assess a subject's sexual orientation towards males and females. Details of the modification of the questionnaire and a paper and pencil version are presented. The implications of data obtained from a group of volunteer heterosexual males is discussed and it can be seen that the revision of the questionnaire was a necessary advance as some of the data derived from the original version are merely artifacts of the erroneous assumptions upon which the S.O.M. was originally based. The increasing need to gather and evaluate larger and larger amounts of clinical data in a psychiatric setting is beginning to cause problems; the computer‐assisted psychometric system is an inexpensive time‐saving device with wide applications relevant to this problem.