T01-O-19 The analysis of sexual lifestyles of adult Poles. Comparison of an internet-based survey and paper-based survey - 27/06/08
Résumé |
The internet-based sexual studies are becoming more and more popular. This study offers a comparison of internet-based survey and paper-based survey on sexual activities of adult Poles thus contributing to the international discussion about biases in internet-based samples.
Objectives |
• | to compare results of internet-based and paper-based surveys on sexual life styles in Poland |
• | to investigate attitudes to various forms of sexual expression and sexually related issues. |
Design and Method |
A questionnaire containing 136 items was developed and validated by the authors and was made available to volunteers either online or in paper form. The online questionnaire was administered through a university website to volunteers recruited online through search engines or e-mailing lists.
The paper version was distributed among volunteer students of two large cosmopolitan universities and among employees of six randomly selected companies in western Poland.
Results |
There were 691 responses with 46.4% males and 53.6% females (internet ample) and 48.3% males and 51.7% females (paper-based sample).
• | Both samples consisted mostly of young (aged 22-28), well educated and living in big cities people. |
• | Higher percentage of people identified themselves as attracted to the same sex or both sexes in web-based survey (12%) than paper-based sample (6%) |
• | There was no significant difference in reference to oral and anal sex, casual sex, sex for money. |
Conclusions |
• | There were many similarities in sexual biography and current sexual behaviour between internet-based and paper-based samples. |
• | The internet-based and paper-based samples presented similar behavioural characteristics toward different sexual activities |
• | However, this Internet sample revealed more permissive attitudes toward different sexually related issues than the paper-based sample. |
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