Questionnaire for Online sexual Solicitation and Interactions with Adults (Gámez-Guadix, Santisteban, & Alcazar, 2018)
- Populations: children, adolescents
- Age ranges: 12-13
- Languages: English
- Countries: Spain
Items
Subscales:
- Sexual Solicitation
- Sexualized Interactions
Items by Subscale:
Sexual Solicitation
- An adult asked me for pictures or videos of myself with sexual content.
- An adult asked me questions about explicit sexual content through the Internet or a mobile device
- I have been asked to have cybersex with an adult (e.g., via a webcam)
- An adult asked over the Internet me to have offline sex
- An adult sent me photos or videos of himself/herself with sexual content
Sexualized Interactions
- I have sent an adult photos or videos with sexual content of me
- I have maintained a flirtatious relationship with an adult online
- I talked about sexual things with an adult on the Internet
- I’ve met an adult I previously met on the Internet in person
- We have met offline to have sexual contact
Responses:
Items used a 4 point Likert-type scale, 0 (never), 1 (once or twice), 2 (3-5 times), 3 (6 or more times)
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Gámez-Guadix, M., De Santisteban, P., & Alcazar, M. Á. (2018). The Construction and Psychometric Properties of the Questionnaire for Online Sexual Solicitation and Interaction of Minors With Adults. Sexual Abuse, 30(8), 975–991. https://doi.org/10.1177/1079063217724766
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Green: Face validity
- Green: 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
