Self-Report; Heterosexual Identity (Egan, 1999)
- Populations: Children, Adolsecents
- Age ranges: Average 11 years, 9 months
- Languages: English
- Countries: United States
Items
Example Items
- Some girls definitely think they’ll get married one day BUT other girls don’t necessarily think they’ll get married one day.
- Some girls don’t know if they’ll have a family when they grow up BUT other girls are s;ure they’ll have a family when they grow up.
Scoring
“measures were scored on a scale of 1 to 4, with higher scores reflecting higher levels of the construct. All item responses for a particular measure were averaged, resulting in scale scores that also ranged from 1 to 4. “ (Egan 1999)
Citations
Egan, S. K. (1999). Three new measures of gender identity: implications for children’s psychosocial development [Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Green: Convergent validity
- Unknown: Construct validity
Reliability
- Green: Internal consistency
- Green: 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
