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