Sexual Attitude Scale (Lou & Chen, 2009)
- Populations: Middle and Late Adolescents
- Age ranges: Recruited through Taiwanese Junior college classes (a typical age group of approximately 15-20)
- Languages: Not reported
- Countries: Taiwan
Items
Subscales
- Premarital Sexual Permissiveness, 6 Items
- Gender Interaction, 3 Items
Example items are not reported.
Responses
Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale in which 1 indicated ‘‘strongly disagree’’ and 5 indicated ‘‘strongly agree’’
Scoring
Higher scores indicated more positive sexual attitudes.
Citations
Lou, J., & Chen, S. (2009). Relationships among sexual knowledge, sexual attitudes, and safe sex behaviour among adolescents: A structural equation model. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46(12), 1595-1603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2009.05.017
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Green: Face validity
- Unknown: Convergent validity
- Unknown: 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
