Attitudes Toward Bisexual People (Stiekema et al., 2024)
- Populations: Early and Middle Adolescents
- Age ranges: 12-16
- Languages: English, Dutch
- Countries: Netherlands
Items
Example Items
- “I avoid bisexual people”
- “I think bisexuality is wrong.”
Responses
Items used a 5 Item Likert-type scale, 1 (totally agree) to 5 (totally disagree)
Scoring
Not reported
Citations
- Mulick PS, Wright LW. Examining the existence of biphobia in the heterosexual and homosexual populations. Journal of Bisexuality. 2002; 2(4), 45–64.
- Stiekema, E., Warrens, M. J., van Bergen, D. D., & Parlevliet, S. (2024). Assessing attitudes toward LGB people in young adolescents. PloS One, 19(10), e0305057. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305057
Team comments
This scale is an adaptation of the 30 Item Attitudes Toward Bisexual People scale developed by Mulick and Wright (2002), which also used a different response format. As that scale does not seem to report individual scales / subscales below 25 items, validation data has not been evaluated, however, please see citation below for further information.
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
- 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
