Perceived Consequences 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 partner would lose respect for you.
• If you had sexual intercourse, afterward, you would feel guilty.
• If you had sexual intercourse, it would upset your mother.
• If you {got someone pregnant/got pregnant}, it would be embarrassing for your family.
• If you {got someone pregnant/got pregnant}, it would be embarrassing for you.
• If you {got someone pregnant/got pregnant}, you would be forced to grow up too fast.

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)