Perceived Benefits of Sex scale (Benson & Faas, 2014)

• Populations: Adolescents
• Age ranges: 12-18
• Languages: English
• Countries: United States

Items

Some people have sexual intercourse before they get married. Others do not. For these questions, it doesn’t matter whether you yourself have had intercourse. Just indicate whether you agree or disagree with the statements.

• If you had sexual intercourse, your friends would respect you more.
• If you had sexual intercourse, it would give you a great deal of physical pleasure.
• If you had sexual intercourse, it would relax you.
• If you had sexual intercourse, it would make you more attractive to the opposite sex.
• If you had sexual intercourse, you would feel less lonely.

Responses

Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale, 1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree

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)