Teen Attitude Pregnancy Scale (Somers, Johnson, & Sawilowski, 2002)

Attitudes and intentions regarding pregnancy in adolescents; 16 items / 4 Item Subscales, Age M = 15.98

Populations: Adolescents
Age ranges: Range not reported, Sample M = 15.98
Languages: English
Countries: United States

Items

Subscales:

Future Orientation
Realism about Child Rearing
Personal Intetions
Sexual Self-efficacy

Items by subscale (taken from Somers, Johnson, & Sawilowski (2002) mean score reporting and may not represent exact wording)

Future Orientation

Important to finish highschool
A child impedes highschool education
Have plan to further education
A child impedes post highschool education

Realism about Child Rearing

Can care for child by myself
Responsible to be a parent
Financially able to be a parent
Emotionally able to be a parent

Personal Intentions

Knowledge of how to avoid pregnancy
Birth control is important
Avoid STDs
Use birth control

Sexual Self-Efficacy

to resist sex if contraceptives unavailable
to use birth control when having sex
to delay sex until after high school
to resist sex if pressured by partner

Responses

Items used a 5 point Likert type scale, 1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly disagree (4th subscale labelled 1 = very sure, 5 = very unsure)

Scoring

Not Reported

Citations

Somers, C. L., Johnson, S. A., & Sawilowsky, S. S. (2002). A measure for evaluating the effectiveness of teen pregnancy prevention programs. Psychology in the Schools, 39 (3), 337-342.

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