Perceived Heterosexism Scale (Vyncke et al., 2011)

• Populations: Adolescents
• Age ranges: 12-18
• Languages: English, French
• Countries: Canada

Items

• It’s better for children to be brought up in a heterosexual family.
• Lesbian mothers are as good as heterosexual (straight) mothers.
• Children in lesbian families are probably going to grow up gay or lesbian themselves.
• Children in lesbian families are more likely to have problems.
• Children in lesbian families don’t have a proper male role model.
• Children in lesbian families are going to be teased and bullied more at school.
• Children in lesbian families are more likely to be abused.
• Lesbian families aren’t normal. 

Responses

Items used a 4 item ordinal response format: Strongly disagree with this, Disagree with this, Agree with this, and Strongly agree with this.

Scoring

Participants were asked to indicate on a 4-point Likert-
type scale whether most students in their school would (a) strongly disagree, (b) disagree, (c) agree, or (d) strongly agree with each of the assumptions listed. The interviewer read every opinion (assumptions 1 through 8) and reminded the participant about the answer choices for every assumption
Item 2 reversed, Score is mean value of item scores.

Citations

Johanna D. Vyncke, Danielle Julien, Emilie Jodoin & Emilie Jouvin (2011) Development and Initial Validation of the Perceived Heterosexism Scale and the Preoccupation with Disclosure of Parents’ Sexual Orientation Scale, Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 7:4,
313-331, DOI: 10.1080/1550428X.2011.592963