Escala de Actividad Sexual (Vargas & Ponsoda, 2010)
- Populations: Colombian adolescents
- Age ranges: M = 15.49, SD = 1.77
- Languages: Spanish
- Countries: Colombia
Items
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Text preceding the measure:
The following questions ask about what some people your age do when they are with the person they are dating, with their boyfriend/girlfriend, or with the person they are in a relationship with and consider their partner.
Please indicate how often you have done each of the following activities with the people you have dated, with your boyfriend/girlfriend, or with whom you have been in a relationship.
Items:
1. Holding hands.
2. Kissing on the mouth.
3. Caressing different parts of the body.
4. Touching each other’s genitals.
5. Having sex.
Response options:
1 - Never
2 - Rarely
3 - Sometimes
4 - Often
5 - Always
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Ponsoda, V., & Vargas, E. (2010). Escala de actividad sexual: Un instrumento para predecir el inicio temprano de relaciones sexuales. Psicología Conductual, 18(3), 591.
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Green: 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
