Self-Efficacy Scale to Avoid Risk Behaviors (Palacios Delgado, 2014)
- Populations: Mexican adolescents and young adults
- Age ranges: 13-21
- Languages: Spanish
- Countries: Mexico
Items
Subscales
- conducta sexual, 5 Items
- tabaco, 9 Items
- alcohol, 11 Items
- drogas, 5 Items
- daños a la salud, 6 Items
- conducta antisocial, 7 Items
Example item
For this measure a singular example item provided in the methods, however it was unclear if this was included in the final measure:
- ”I would feel capable of refusing to have sex if I did not have condoms”
- Translation provided by a native Spanish speaking member of the Good Measure team.
Responses
Items used a closed Likert-type response ranging from almost never to almost always.
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Delgado, J. R. P. (2015). Estimación psicométrica de la escala de autoeficacia ante conductas de riesgo para adolescentes en méxico. Intervención Psicosocial, 24(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psi.2014.11.004
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Unknown: 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
