Comfort with Sexual Matters for Young Adolescents (Rye, Meaney, Yessis, & McKay, 2012)
- Populations: Adolescents, Young Adults
- Languages: English
- Countries: Canada
Items
- It is not OK for a person to have more than one sex partner during their lifetime.*
- It is OK for a person to masturbate if it makes him/her feel good.
- It is OK for two men to have sex with each other or two women to have sex with each other.
- It is not OK for people to have sexual intercourse unless they are in a committed relationship.*
- It is OK to enjoy being sexually aroused (turned on) by a sexy story, picture, or movie.
- Oral sex is disgusting to me.*
*Item is Reverse-Coded
Responses
Items used a 7 point Likert-type scale 1 = strongly disagree to 7 = strongly agree
Scoring
“...higher scores indicate greater erotophilia (greater comfort with sexual matters). Then, an aggregated score may be calculated; this can take the form of a sum (range 6–42) or an average (range 1–7). Method of scoring will not affect relationships with other variables” (Rye & Traversa, 2020)
Citations
Rye, B. J., Traversa, M. (2020). Comfort with Sexual Matters for Young Adolescents. In R. R. Milhausen, J. K. Sakaluk, T. D. Fischer, C. M. Davis, W. L. Yarber (Eds.), Handbook of sexuality-related measures, 4th edition (573-574). Routledge.
Rye, B. J., Meaney, G. J., Yessis, J., & McKay, A. (2012). Uses of the “Comfort with Sexual Matters for Young Adolescents” scale: A measure of erotophobia–erotophilia for youth. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 21, 91–100
Team comments
Please note that the Test-Retest correlations for the youth sample ranged from .50-.63, below our adequacy threshold for Test-Retest Quality.
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Green: Convergent validity
- Unknown: 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
