Multidimensional Online Grooming Questionnaire (Gámez-Guadix et al., 2021)

• Populations: Children, Adolescents
• Age ranges: 12-15
• Countries: Spain

Items

Subscales:

• Use of Deception
• Gift Giving
• Interest in the Victim’s Environment
• Sexualization
• Aggression

Items by Subscale:

Use of Deception

• Lied to make me believe that he/she was a person closer to my age [by appearance, language, etc.]
• Told me that he/she was younger than he/she really was
• Lied to make me believe that we had things in common or that we liked the same things
• Pretended to be other people to convince me of things or scare me

Gift Giving

• Offered me free photo sessions
• Offered me work because of my physical appearance (as a model, public relations, etc.)
• Offered me money or other things in exchange for sex
• Offered me money or other things in exchange for photos or videos of me

Interest in the Victim’s Environment

• Showed interest in my school hours, family, etc.
• Asked me about my family and friends
• Was interested in my family problems
• Was interested in how I feel, if I was happy

Sexualization

•  In the beginning, he/she didn’t talk to me about sex, but then he/she did
• Made sexual jokes or comments about me
• Asked me about my sexual experiences
• From the beginning, showed me his/her interest in sex

Aggression

• Sent me threatening or insulting messages
• Threatened to spread or post intimate or sexual photos or videos of me on the Internet 
• Spread jokes, rumors, gossip, or comments that humiliated me
• Made me look bad with my family, friends or people I know

Responses:

 0 (never), 1 (once or twice), 2 (3–4 times), and 3 (5 or more times).

Scoring

Not Reported

Citations

Gámez-Guadix, M., De Santisteban, P., Wachs, S., & Wright, M. (2021). Unraveling cyber sexual abuse of minors: Psychometrics properties of the Multidimensional Online Grooming Questionnaire and prevalence by sex and age. Child Abuse & Neglect, 120, 105250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105250