Sexual Self-Esteem (Bordeau, 2004)
- Populations: Middle-Late Adolescents and Young Adults
- Age ranges: 12-21
- Languages: English
- Countries: United States
Items
Subscales
- Say No, 9 items
- Precautions, 6 items
- Assertion, 5 items
Responses
Items used a 4 point Likert-style scale, 1 = strongly disagree / not at all likely, 4 = strongly agree / very likely, as appropriate to the item.
Scoring
Not reported
Citations
- Bourdeau, E. (2004). Constructing a Sexual Self: Latino Adolescent Sexuality [PhD Dissertation, Purdue University]. ProQuest Theses and Dissertations
- Buzwell, S., & Rosenthal, D. (1996). Constructing a sexual self: Adolescents’ sexual self-perceptions and sexual risk-taking. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 6(4), 489-513.
Team comments
This measure was developed alongside two other measures for a set of three including: Sexual Self-Efficacy, Sexual Self-Esteem, and Sexual Self-Beliefs (Bordeau, 2004)
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
- 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
