Parent Disapproval of Sex scale (Benson & Faas, 2014)
- Populations: Adolescents
- Age ranges: 12-18
- Languages: English
- Countries: United States
Items
Regardless of whether you have done these things or not, how would your {mother/father} feel about each of the following things?
- How would she feel about you having sex at this time in your life?
- How would she feel about your having sexual intercourse with someone who was special to you and whom you knew well – like a steady {girlfriend/boyfriend}?
- How would she feel about your using birth control at this time in your life?
- How would he feel about your having sex at this time in your life?
- How would he feel about your having sexual intercourse with someone who was special to you and whom you knew well – like a steady {girlfriend/boyfriend}?
- How would he feel about your using birth control at this time in your life?
Responses
Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale, 1 = strongly approve, 5 = strongly disapprove
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Benson, M. J., & Faas, C., (2014). Assessing adolescent contexts: Measures of families, peers, schools, and neighborhoods. International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health, 7(1), 53-69.
Team comments
This measure was developed as part of the Battery of Adolescent Measures, 4 of which are reported in the Good Measure project:
Parent Disapproval of Sex scale;
Perceived Benefits of Sex scale;
Perceived Consequences of Sex scale;
Perceived Hassle with Birth Control scale;All Measures were developed alongside each other by Benson and Faas (2014)
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Unknown: 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
