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201859 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.201859 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2025 130 pages Masters Thesis Academic theses en Durka, Mary Katherine Burleson, Mary Roberts, Nicole Nelson-Coffey, Katherine Arizona State University Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2025 Field of study: Psychology For years, academic literature has conceptualized sexuality as a single spectrum from attraction to the same sex to attraction to the other sex. This single spectrum implies that attraction to multiple genders function as inverses of each other and implicitly defines bisexuality as a ‘middle ground’ between straight and gay/lesbian or—at worst—a patchwork identity made of up different parts. Measures in the current literature fail to capture the complexity of both attraction and bisexuality. The purpose of the current study is to create and validate a scale that measures bisexual women’s attraction to men and women separately. A pilot study (N = 19) was performed with undergraduate bisexual women recruited from ASU’s SONA system to determine how bisexual women conceptualize attraction. These responses were thematically coded, resulting in a total of eight themes of attraction. The themes then informed the development of a new Bisexual Attraction Scale. For scale validation (N = 1,100) participants were recruited from the online Connect CloudResearch Platform to complete a survey including the new scale. Exploratory structural equation modeling was used to map the structure of the factors and to reduce the number of items in the scale. Once a good fit was found, measurement invariance and convergent and discriminant validity were tested. The scale maintained good invariance and performed as expected in convergent and discriminant validity tests. The scale offers promising results and confirms the multidimensionality of bisexual attraction. Psychology LGBTQ studies Social Psychology Attraction bisexual women Confirmatory factor analysis exploratory structural equation modeling Scale Development Multidimensional Attraction: Creation and Validation of a New Measure of Attraction