Intention to Engage in First Sexual Intercourse (Brcar & Dernovšek, 2009)
- Populations: Adolescents
- Age ranges: Range not reported, M = 14.4
- Countries: Slovenia
Items
Subscales
- Past Sexual Behavior
- Belief in Pleasant Outcome of Behavior
- Evaluation of Pleasant Outcome of Behavior
- Subjective Norm
- Perceived Behavioral Control
Items by Subscale
Past Sexual Behavior
- Past Sexual Experiences
Belief in Pleasant Outcome of Behavior
- probability of the memory of the first intimate sexual experience
- probability of deepened understanding between partners
- probability of the end of tension before the first sexual intercourse
- probability of maturity feeling
Evaluation of Pleasant Outcome of Behavior
- evaluation of the memory of the first intimate sexual experience – good/pleasant
- evaluation of the deepened understanding between the partners – good/pleasant
- evaluation of the end of tension before the first sexual intercourse – good/pleasant
- evaluation of the maturity feeling – good/pleasant
Subjective Norm
- likelihood of older sibling’s agreement with your decision to engage into the first sexual intercourse
- likelihood of school teacher’s agreement with your decision to engage into the first sexual intercourse
- likelihood of friends’ agreement with your decision to engage into the first sexual intercourse
- likelihood of schoolmate/peers’ agreement with your decision to engage into the first sexual intercourse
Perceived Behavioral Control
- Would you refuse sex even if this partner was very attractive?
- Would you refuse sex if all your friends had already had sexual experience?
- Would you refuse a demand from your partner for sex because you have yet not decided for yourself?
- Whether I decide to engage in the sexual intercourse or not depends entirely on me,
*Items were taken from a model structure diagram and related notes (Brcar & Dernovšek, 2009) for research purposes, and may not accurately represent items as presented in measure application.
Responses
Items used a 6 point rating scale (Brcar & Dernovšek, 2009)
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Brcar, P., & Dernovsek, M. Z. (2009). Validation of questionnaire estimating predictors of behavior intention to engage in first sexual intercourse among eighth-grade pupils. Croatian Medical Journal, 50(5), 483-491. https://doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2009.50.483
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
