Scale of Myths about Sexuality (Guerra et al., 2018)

• Populations: Adolescents
• Age ranges: M = 15.07, SD = 1.20
• Languages: Spanish, English
• Countries: Spain

Items

Subscales

• Intolerance, 8 Items
• Romantic Love, 6 Items
• Sexist Myths, 6 Items
• Generational Myths, 5 Items
• Contraception, 4 Items
• Pregnancy, 2 Items

Items / examples not reported, subscale descriptions reported as:

• Intolerance
  • intolerance for sexualities
• Romantic Love
  • the concept of love most deeply entrenched in our society 
• Sexist Myths
  • double standards and ambivalent sexism still present in our population
• Generational Myths
  • myths transmitted in socialization and the education of a generation
• Contraception
  • correct knowledge of contraceptive methods and the rejection of false ideas that negate safe sex
• Pregnancy
  • knowing how it really occurs and what are the risk behaviors that can lead to it

Responses

Items used a 5-point Likert-type scale, where 1 indicated ‘‘strongly disagree’’, 2 ‘‘disagree’’, 3  ‘’neutral’’, 4 ‘‘agree’’ and 5 ‘‘strongly agree’’

Scoring

“The correction is made by adding all the scores for the items. The total scores will range from 27 (less adherence to myths) to 135 (greater adherence to sexual myths), that occurs when adding each of the scores. Where at a lower score, adolescents have fewer myths and the ideas they have are more true.”

Citations

Guerra, C., Del Río, F. J., Cabello, F., & Morales, I. M. (2019). Creation and validation of a scale of sexuality for adolescents: Scale of myths about sexuality. Revista Internacional De Andrologia, 17(4), 123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.androl.2018.06.001