A First Look At Sexual Compulsivity In Serbia And Bosnia And Herzegovina
A First Look At Sexual Compulsivity In Serbia And Bosnia And Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: Data about sexual compulsivity prevalence in diverse cultures are not consistent, and data about sexual compulsivity prevalence in Balkan still do not exist. We investigate the prevalence of sexual compulsivity on a sample (N=1711) of students from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) using the Kalichman's Sexual Compulsivity Scale (SCS). Internal consistency of the scale in this research is good, Cronbach’s alpha being .943. The subsample of students from B&H consists of N=1141 and the subsample of students from Serbia consists of N=570 subjects. Prevalence of sexual compulsivity in the total sample is 8.94% (N=153), 17.87% for males and 3.48% for females. Mann-Whitney U test (U=274912.5, p= .000, z= -5.348, r= .129) showed a significant difference between young people in Serbia and B&H in terms of sexual compulsivity levels. Higher sexual compulsivity prevalence rate was observed in young people from Serbia as opposed to young people from B&H, χ2(1, n=1711)=11.094, p= .001, phi= .083. Likewise, higher sexual compulsivity prevalence was observed in males as opposed to females. There is a significant difference in sexual compulsivity prevalence between males in Serbia and males inB&H, but no significant difference was found between the female subsamples in these two countries.

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