Slut-Shaming Instrument (Martin-Storey et al., 2022)

• Populations: Adolescents
• Age ranges: 14-17
• Languages: English
• Countries: Canada

Items

Item Stem: “Has anyone ever...”

• Made a negative comment about you having too many sexual parnters, or because they thought you had too many sexual partners?
• Said that your clothes were too provactive, that the way you dress is too distracting, or that you dressed provocatively to attract attention?
• Used words like “slut,” “ho,” “easy,” or “skank” to describe you or your behavior in a mean way?
• Blamed you or told you “what did you expect” when you were upset about people making sexual comments about your appearance or behavior?
• Were you ever left out of a group of people or excluded from an activity because of what people thought about your sexual behavior, or because they thought you dressed or acted too sexy?
• Try to make you feel dirty or ashamed about the way you were dressed?
• Try to make you feel dirty or ashamed about your sexual behavior?
• Accused you of certain types of sexual behavior because of who your friends are (e.g., because you hang out with boys)?

Responses

Item responses ranged from 0 (never) to 3 (more than five times)

Scoring

Responses were summed, and Higher scores indicated more experiences of slut shaming. (Martin-Storey et al., 2022)

Citations

Martin-Storey, A., Dirks, M., Paquette, G., Boutin, S., Dryburgh, N. S. J., Leduc, K., Bolduc, M., & Temcheff, C. (2023). The slut-shaming instrument: Preliminary validation, correlates, and links with psychological distress among adolescent girls. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 33(4), 1447-1457. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12876