American Association of University Women Sexual Harassment Survey (American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 2001)
- Populations: American 7th grade students
- Languages: English
- Countries: United States
Items
Items as reported in Cutbush and Williams (2016)
“In the last 6 months, how many times have you done any of these things to someone at school?”
- touched, grabbed, or pinched someone in a sexual way
- spread sexual rumors about them
- made sexual jokes about someone
- made sexual gestures or looks at someone
- showed, gave, or left someone sexual pictures, messages, or notes
- wrote sexual messages about someone on bathroom walls, locker rooms, or blackboards
Responses not reported
Scoring
“Response options for each of the items within each scale were coded dichotomously: never (0), any (1).” (Cutbush & Williams, 2016)
Citations
Hostile hallways: Bullying, teasing, and sexual harassment in school. (2001). American Journal of Health Education, 32(5), 307-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/19325037.2001.10603488
Cutbush, S., & Williams, J. (2016). Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Harassment, and Bullying Among Middle School Youth: Examining Measurement Invariance by Gender. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 26(4), 918–926. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12244
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Unknown: Convergent validity
- Green: Construct validity
Reliability
- Unknown: 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
