ABSTRACT
The purpose of the Double Standard Scale is to measure acceptance of the traditional sexual double standard. Researchers have used the Double Standard Scale to explore a number of different topics. For example, researchers have used this scale to examine how adherence to the sexual double standard might correlate with coercion and intimate partner violence (Cvancara & Kinney, 2009), expectations for adolescent behaviors (Emmerink, Vanwesenbeeck, van den Eijnden, & ter Bogt, 2016), perceptions of virginity (Eriksson & Humphreys, 2014), the amount and quality of sexual communication (Greene & Faulkner, 2005), relationship satisfaction and consenting to unwanted sex (Kennett, Humphreys & Bramley, 2013), rape-supportive attitudes and intimate partner violence (Sierra, Bermúdez, Buela-Casal, Salinas, & Monge, 2014; Sierra, Santos-Iglesias, Gutiérrez-Quintanilla, Bermúdez, & Buela-Casal, 2010), and adolescents’ exposure to sexual music videos (Zhang, Miller & Harrison, 2008).
