Sexual coercion scale - Escala de Coerción Sexual (Muñoz-Rivas et al., 2017)

• Populations: adolescents and young adults
• Age ranges: 16-24
• Languages: Spanish
• Countries: Spain

Items

Subscales

• Perpetuation
• Victimization

Items by Subscale

Perpetration

• ¿Tú has amenazado a tu novio/a con terminar la relación si no mantenía relaciones sexuales contigo? 
• ¿Tú has insistido verbalmente en tener relaciones sexuales, a pesar de que tu novio/a no quería? 
• ¿Tú has emborrachado o drogado a tu novio/a con el fin de mantener relaciones sexuales con él/ella? 
• ¿Tú has amenazado con utilizar la fuerza física (sujetar, empujar, etc.) si tu novio/a no aceptaba mantener relaciones sexuales? 
• ¿Tú has agarrado o sujetado a tu novio/a para realizar prácticas sexuales que él/ella no quería consentir? 
• Have you threatened to end the relationship with your boyfriend/girlfriend if he/she didn’t have sex with you?
• Have you verbally insisted on having sex, even though your boyfriend/girlfriend didn’t want to?
• Have you gotten your boyfriend/girlfriend drunk or drugged him/her in order to have sex with him/her?
• Have you threatened to use physical force (hold, push, etc.) if your boyfriend/girlfriend didn’t agree to have sex?
• Have you grabbed or held your boyfriend/girlfriend to perform sexual acts that he/she didn’t consent to?

Victimisation

• ¿Tu novio/a te ha amenazado con terminar la relación si no mantenías relaciones sexuales con él/ella? 
• ¿Tu novio/a te ha insistido verbalmente en tener relaciones sexuales, a pesar de que tú no querías? 
• ¿Tu novio/a te ha emborrachado o drogado con el fin de mantener relaciones sexuales contigo? 
• ¿Tu novio/a ha amenazado con utilizar la fuerza física (sujetar, empujar, etc.) si no aceptabas mantener relaciones sexuales? 
• ¿Tu novio/a te ha agarrado o sujetado para realizar prácticas sexuales que tú no querías consentir? 
• Has your boyfriend/girlfriend threatened to end the relationship if you didn’t have sex with him/her?
• Has your boyfriend/girlfriend verbally insisted on having sex, even though you didn’t want to?
• Has your boyfriend/girlfriend gotten you drunk or drugged you in order to have sex with you?
• Has your boyfriend/girlfriend threatened to use physical force (hold, push, etc.) if you did not agree to have sex?
• Has your boyfriend/girlfriend grabbed or held you down to perform sexual acts that you did not consent to?

Responses

Items used a 5-point Likert-type response format

• 1=never 
• 2=rarely 
• 3=sometimes 
• 4=often 
• 5=very often

English Item translations provided by a native Spanish speaker on the Good Measure team.

Scoring

As for the use and interpretation of the scores derived from the scale, the items for both perpetration and victimization all go in the same direction, with no inverse items. The scores obtained are transformed to a scale of 0 to 4 and added together, with the total score for perpetration being able to range from 0 to 20 and the same for victimization.

Citations

Muñoz-Rivas, M., Redondo, N., Zamarrón, M. D., & González, M. P. (2017). “escala de coercion sexual” en relaciones de noviazgo: Propiedades psicometricas en poblacion juvenil espanola. Psicología Conductual, 25(3), 547-561.