Sexual Self-Efficacy Scale (Gerke, Budd, & Plax, 2016)
- Populations: African American Adolescents
- Age ranges: 15-24
- Languages: English
- Countries: United States
Items
Item Stem: Now think about your relationship with your PRIMARY (MAIN) partner. How
confident are you that you could . . .
- Refuse to have sex with your partner because you weren’t in the mood?
- Ask your partner to wait while you got a condom or dental dam?
- Tell your partner how to treat you sexually?
- Refuse to engage in sexual practices you didn’t like?
- Ask your partner to use a condom or dental dam?
- Refuse to have sex because your partner did not want to use a condom or dental dam?
Responses:
Items used a 4 point Likert-type scale.
Scoring
Scale ranged “from not at all confident (coded 1) to very much confident (coded 4), with higher scores indicating greater level of confidence” (Gerke, Budd, & Plax, 2016)
Scoring Instructions: Sum items to find total scale score
Citations
Gerke, D., Budd, E. L., & Plax, K. (2016). Measurement Noninvariance of Safer Sex Self-Efficacy Between Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Black Youth. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 7(3), 569–584. https://doi.org/10.1086/688047
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: 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
