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Clinical: specific disorders

Golombok-Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction.

GRISS

What it measures
Quality of a couple's sexual relationship and sexual dysfunction; 12 subscales (e.g. impotence, premature ejaculation, anorgasmia, vaginismus, non-communication, infrequency, avoidance, non-sensuality, dissatisfaction)
Length and format
28 (separate male and female forms). 5-point frequency (never-always); transformed to standardized 1-9 subscale + overall scores; higher = more problems (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Several languages incl. ES, IT, NL, FA, ZH, TR
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Rust, J., & Golombok, S. (1986). The GRISS: A psychometric instrument for the assessment of sexual dysfunction. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 15(2), 157-165.

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