A projective questionnaire for measuring male sexual desire was developed. In Study 1, the original Sexual Desire Scale for Males (SDS-M) was developed by referring to information on sexual activities on the Internet, as well as to prior studies on sexual offenders and their victims. The original SDS-M requested participants to judge whether they agreed or disagreed with sentences regarding various sexual behaviors and objects of sexual desire. SDS-M did not inquire about the frequency of sexual activities or the strength of sexual desire. The original SDS-M was administered to 140 males. The factor analysis of their responses revealed that the SDS-M had a 5-factor structure: daily sexual desire, h omo-hetero sexual desire, penis oriented sexual desire, intercourse oriented sexual desire and abnormal sexual desire. Cronback's alpha indicated satisfactory internal consistency and reliability. Study 2, investigated the stability and the validity of the SDS-M. It was administrated to 274 males, and based on the results of confirmatory factor analysis using Structural Equation Modeling, the SDS-M was divided into two subscales: a general sexual desire subscale consisting of the four factors with the exception of the Abnormal factor, and an Abnormal sexual desire subscale. The goodness of fit index of each subscale indicated satisfactory factor validity. Moreover, the SDS-M had reasonable test-retest reliability and satisfactory correlations with the Sexual Attitudes Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory.

The aim of this study was to examine the intellectual characteristics of the abused children who were under the protection of the child guidance center. The subjects were 127 children who had a previous history of physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. Their intelligences were measured by the use of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III (WISC・III), the Tanaka-Binet Intelligence Scale or the Kyoto Scale of Psychological Development 2001. It was found that the mean psychometric intelligence (PI) of all the subjects was 78.98 (SD= 18.03). In comparison with the standard mean PI (100) and the mental retardation criteria PI (70), it was suggested that the mean PI of the abused children were at the borderline level. Examination on the basis of quantification theory I showed that the neglected children had lower PI in terms of their intellectual development than the other types of the abused children, and that the PI of the abused children in the protection in child welfare institutions had higher than that of the abused children in their houses. It was also suggested that factors such as types of abuse, children's sex, and their place of care had no significant effects on the discrepancy between verbal and performance PI of abused children.