Religiousness and Sexual Values Predict Sexual Incongruence: Results from a U.S. Nationally Representative Study.

The present work aimed to clarify commonly endorsed sexual values in the general U.S. population as well as the association between sexual values and incongruence. Study 1 recruited adults ( N  = 923; 51.8% women; M age = 35.5, SD = 10.8) to answer a free response question about sexual values via Amazon's Mechanical Turk, while Study 2 posed the same question to a weighted, nationally representative U.S. sample ( N  = 2,519; 51.4% women; M age = 48.2, SD = 17.8). Data collection was completed in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Results from these cross-sectional studies demonstrated that, although religiousness predicted sexual incongruence, conservative sexual values predicted variance in sexual incongruence, over and above the effects of religiousness.