Sexual Attitudes (Hensums, Overbeek, & Jorgensen, 2020)
- Populations: Adolescents
- Age ranges: 13-17
- Countries: Netherlands
Items
Subscales
- Evaluation of Male Sexual Behavior, 3 Items
- Evaluation of Female Sexual Behavior, 3 Items
Final measure not reported, example Items by Subscale (initial item list, not all items appear in final measure)
Evaluation of Male Sexual Behavior
- I admire a boy who has sexual intercourse with multiple girls
- I pity a boy who is still a virgin at 18
- A boy who has sexual intercourse on the first date, has no self-respect
- It is fine if a boy has sexual intercourse with a girl without being in love
- I admire a boy who is still a virgin when he marries a girl
Evaluation of Female Sexual Behavior
- I admire a girl who has sexual intercourse with multiple boys
- I pity a girl who is still a virgin at 18
- A girl who has sexual intercourse on the first date, has no self-respect
- It is fine if a girl has sexual intercourse with a boy without being in love
- I admire a girl who is still a virgin when he marries a boy
Responses
Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale, 1 = totally agree, 5 = totally disagree
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Hensums, M., Overbeek, G., & Jorgensen, T. D. (2022). Not One Sexual Double Standard but Two? Adolescents’ Attitudes About Appropriate Sexual Behavior. Youth & Society, 54(1), 23–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X20957924
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
- Unknown: 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
