Adolescent Attitudes Towards Sexuality (Actitud Adolescente hacia la Sexualidad; Lima-Serrano et al., 2013)

Attitudes and knowledge about sex in adolescents, 10 Items, Ages 14-18
  • Populations: Spanish adolescents
  • Age ranges: 14-18
  • Languages: Spanish
  • Countries: Spain

Items

  • If you don’t have an orgasm, you can’t get pregnant. (Si no se llega al orgasmo no se puede quedar embarazada.) 
  • AIDS is very difficult to contract. (El sida es muy difícil de contraer.) 
  • It’s very difficult to get pregnant the first time you have penetrative sex. (La primera vez es muy difícil quedarse embarazada.) 
  • Withdrawal is a way to avoid pregnancy. (La marcha atrás sirve para evitar el embarazo.) 
  • It’s not strictly necessary to use a condom, if you can get the “morning after pill.” (No es estrictamente necesario usar preservativo, si se puede conseguir la “píldora del día después”.) 
  • Sexuality involves much more than intercourse. (La sexualidad implica mucho más que el coito.) 
  • My closest friends think that you should always use a condom during penetrative sex. (Mis mejores amigos piensan que se debe utilizar siempre el preservativo en las relaciones sexuales con penetración.) 
  • In relationships, boys and girls have the same needs. (En las relaciones de pareja, chicos y chicas tienen las mismas necesidades.) 
  • Masturbation has negative effects on health. (Masturbarse tiene efectos negativos para la salud.) 
  • Enjoying sex is good. (Disfrutar de las relaciones sexuales es bueno.)

Scoring

Not Reported

Citations

LIMA-SERRANO, M.; SAEZ-BUENO, A.; CACERES-RODRIGUEZ, B., & LIMA-RODRIGUEZ, J.S.. Diseño y validación de escalas para medir la actitud adolescente hacia: sexualidad, sustancias adictivas y seguridad vial: ¿Se relacionan con los comportamientos?. Anales Sis San Navarra [online]. 2013, vol.36, n.2, pp.203-215. ISSN 1137-6627. https://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1137-66272013000200004



 

Scoring breakdown

Measure development

  • Significant design input from young people
  • Cognitive interviews with young people
  • Expert input

Validity

  • Green: Face validity
  • Red: Convergent validity
  • Green: Construct validity

Reliability

  • Green: Internal consistency
  • Unknown: Test-retest

Ease of use

  • Unknown: Readability

Definitions

Face validity: How well a measure appears to represent the construct it is supposed to be measuring.

Convergent validity: How well a measure correlates with other hypothetically-related measures.

Construct validity: The extent to which a measure reflects the construct it was designed to evaluate.

Internal consistency: The extent to which items in a scale capture aspects of the same construct.

Test-retest: The degree to which measurement scores are consistent over a short period of time (usually 2 weeks).

Readability: The ease with which a reader can understand the questionnaire items.

Key

  • Green: Meets validation criteria
  • Red: Does not meet validation criteria
  • Unknown: Evidence not available

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