Adolescent Sexual Expectancies Scale (Bordeau et al., 2011)
- Populations: Adolescents and children
- Age ranges: 10-17
- Languages: English
- Countries: United States
Items
Item stem:
“In your opinion, how likely or unlikely is it that each of the following things would happen to you personally if you were to have sexual intercourse? (If you’ve never had sexual intercourse, please try to imagine and make your best guess.)” [emphasis as reported]
Subscales:
- Social Risk
- Lose your self-respect
- Feel guilty
- Get a bad reputation
- Disappoint important people
- Get into trouble with parents
- Social Benefit
- Feel more attractive
- Feel more loved and wanted
- Prevent break up
- Feel closer to partner
- Fit in more with friends
- Be more popular
- Feel more grown up
- Health Risk
- Get a STD
- Get (someone) pregnant
- Get HIV/AIDS
- Pleasure
- Enjoy it
- Have fun
- Feel excited
- Feel satisfied
- Feel pleasure
- Feel happy
Items taken from factor loadings table and do not exclusively include items used in final measure.
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Bourdeau, B., Grube, J. W., Bersamin, M. M., & Fisher, D. A. (2011). The role of beliefs in sexual behavior of adolescents: Development and validation of an adolescent sexual expectancies scale. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21(3), 639-648. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3840424/
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Green: Convergent validity
- Green: Construct validity
Reliability
- Green: Internal consistency
- Green: 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
