Reproductive Coercion Scale (McCauley et al., 2017)

• Populations: adolescent and adult women
• Age ranges: 16-29 (Sample distribution: 16-20: 38.6%, 21-24: 35.1%, 25-29: 26.3%)
• Languages: English
• Countries: United States

Items

Subscales

• Pregnancy Coercion
• Condom Manipulation

Items

• Told you not to use any birth control (like the pill, shot, ring, etc.)
• Said he would leave you if you didn’t get pregnant
• Told you he would have a baby with someone else if you didn’t get pregnant
• Taken your birth control (like pills) away from you or kept you from going to the clinic to get birth control
• Made you have sex without a condom so you would get pregnant
• Hurt you physically because you did not agree to get pregnant
• Taken off the condom while you were having sex, so you would get pregnant
• Put holes in the condom so you would get pregnant
• Broken the condom on purpose while you were having sex so you would get pregnant

Short Form Items:

Item Stem: “ In the past 3 months, has someone you were dating or going out with:”

Pregnancy Coercion:

• Told you not to use any birth control (like the pill, shot, ring, etc.)
• Taken your birth control (like pills) away from you or kept you from going to the clinic to get birth control
• Made you have sex without a condom so you would get pregnant

Condom Manipulation

• Taken off the condom while you were having sex, so you would get pregnant
• Put holes in the condom or broken the condom on purpose so you would get pregnant

Scoring

Not Reported

Citations

McCauley, H. L., Silverman, J. G., Jones, K. A., Tancredi, D. J., Decker, M. R., McCormick, M. C., Austin, S. B., Anderson, H. A., & Miller, E. (2017). Psychometric properties and refinement of the reproductive coercion scale. Contraception (Stoneham), 95(3), 292-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2016.09.010