Sexting Behavior Scale (Yépez-Tito, Ferragut, & Blanca, 2019)
- Populations: Adolescents
- Age ranges: 12-18
- Languages: Spanish
- Countries: Ecuador
Items
Subscales
- Passive Sexting, 3 Items
- Active Sexting, 6 Items
Items by Subscale
Passive Sexting
- How often have you received text messages with sexual content on your cell phone?
- How often have you received images with sexual content on your cell phone?
- How often have you received texts or images with sexual content through the internet (social networking sites, email, etc.)?
Active Sexting
- How often have you responded to text messages with sexual content that you’ve received on your cell phone?
- How often have you responded to images with sexual content that you’ve received on your cell phone?
- How often have you sent text messages with sexual content using your cell phone?
- How often have you sent images with sexual content using your cell phone?
- How often have you sent texts or images with sexual content over the internet (social networking sites, email, etc.)?
- How often have you posted images with sexual content on Facebook, Tuenti, or other social networking sites?
Responses
Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale ranging from 0-4,
- never;
- rarely;
- sometimes/several times a month;
- often/several times a week;
- frequently/daily
Scoring
each one is rated on a 5-point Likert scale from 0 to 4 (never; rarely;
sometimes/several times a month; often/several times a week; frequently/daily).
Citations
Yépez-Tito, P., Ferragut, M., & Blanca, M. J. (2019). Prevalence and profile of sexting among adolescents in Ecuador, Journal of Youth Studies, 22(4), 505-519, DOI:10.1080/13676261.2018.1515475
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
