Assessing reliability of early adolescent girls' reports of romantic and sexual behavior
Assessing reliability of early adolescent girls' reports of romantic and sexual behavior
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1026033426547
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发表时间：
2003-12-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Dudley, CD
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作者：
Hearn, KD;O'Sullivan, LF;Dudley, CD
城市青少年艾滋病毒感染率的上升引起了人们对他们参与危险性行为的担忧。青少年性报告的准确性对于风险评估至关重要，这可能会指导公共政策、干预措施和教育工作的制定。这里提供的数据是一项更大规模研究的一部分，该研究涉及一系列性行为和认知，这些行为和认知被认为对青春期女孩的性选择和决策很重要。我们的目标是评估早期青春期女孩关于浪漫和性经历的报告的测试和重测可靠性。这些信息将有助于我们关于早期青少年性研究的有限信息库。从纽约市周围的社区环境中招募了 50 名年龄在 12 至 14 岁之间的城市非裔美国和拉丁裔女孩。访谈员在相隔三周的两个时间点进行了一系列性行为和性认知测量。结果表明，女孩们在报告她们的性经历时高度可靠，尤其是那些与第一次恋爱年龄和性里程碑经历相关的经历。
Increasing rates of HIV among urban adolescents have raised concerns about their participation in sexual risk behaviors. The accuracy of adolescents' sexual reports is critical to the assessment of risk, which may later guide the development of public policy, interventions, and education efforts. The data presented here are part of a larger study on a range of sexual behaviors and cognitions believed to be important regarding adolescent girls' sexual choices and decision-making. Our goal here was to assess the test - retest reliability of early adolescent girls' reports of their romantic and sexual experiences. This information will contribute to our limited information base regarding sexuality research with early adolescents. Fifty urban African American and Latina girls between the ages of 12 and 14 years were recruited from community settings around New York City. A battery of sexual behavior and sexual cognition measures was administered by interviewers at two time points separated by a 3-week interval. Results indicated that the girls were highly reliable in reporting their sexual experiences, especially those experiences related to age of first romantic and sexual milestone experiences.