Theory of Planned Behavior Variable measure (Enosh, 2007

• Populations: Middle Adolescents
• Age ranges: 16-17
• Languages: English
• Countries: Israel

Items

Subscales

• Attitude, 8 Items
• Peer Norms, 16 Items
• Perceived-Control, 4 Items

Example Items

• “If a couple goes on a date, and the boy is initiating a sexual intercourse with the girl, and she is resisting, should he persist?”
• “To what degree do you think your close friends believe that if a [boy/girl] initiates a [make-out/sexual intercourse] and the [boy/girl partner] [is passive/resists], s/he should persist”
• “if [I/my-partner] initiate a sexual act (make-out or intercourse), and [my-partner is not/I am not] interested, I can always stop it”

Responses

Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale, 0 = should certainly not, 4 = should certainly persist.

Scoring

Attitude

• All items were averaged in order to create one variable

Peer Norms

• All items were averaged in order to create one variable. 

Perceived Control

• Not reported

Citations

Enosh, G. (2007). Cognition or involvement? Explaining sexual-coercion in high-school dating. Sexual Abuse, 19(3), 311-329. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11194-007-9050-7

Team comments

The Perceived Control subscale did not reach our threshold for adequacy in terms of internal consistency.