Sexual Diversity Bullying Questionnaire (Muñoz-Fernández et al., 2024)
- Populations: Spanish LGBTQ+ individuals
- Age ranges: Range not reported; M = 14.54, SD = 1.76
- Languages: Spanish (items presented in English, English validation not reported)
- Countries: Spain
Items
Subscales:
- General Bullying
- LGBTQ+ Bullying
General Bullying
- Hitting, kicking, or pushing someone
- Insulting and swearing about someone
- Telling other people swear words about someone
- Threatening someone
- Stealing or spoiling something from someone
- Exclude or ignore someone
- Spreading rumors about someone
LGBTQ+ Bullying
- Insulting someone by saying things such as “fagot,” “queer,” “tomboy,” “lesbian,” or related terms
- Threatening someone by alluding to their sexual orientation or identity
- Spreading rumors about someone’s sexual orientation or identity
- Mocking someone’s appearance, clothing, or gestures for not considering them “masculine” or “feminine” enough
- Picking on a member family of someone because they are LGBT
Responses
Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale (0 = Never; 4 = Yes, more than once a week)
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Noelia Muñoz-Fernández, Rosario Del Rey, Joaquín A Mora-Merchán &Paz Elipe (2024) Sexual Diversity Bullying and Cyberbullying Questionnaires: An Inclusive Approach to Measure Sexuality-Based Bullying, Journal of Homosexuality, 71:12, 2740-2763,
DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2023.2260922
Team comments
This measure was validated alongside Sexual Diversity Cyberbullying Questionnaire (SDCBQ) (Muñoz-Fernández et al., 2024)
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Green: 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
