ABSTRACT

Sexual communication improves relationship quality and the sexual and reproductive health of both partners. Much of the research on sexual communication among adolescents has been conducted in settings of the Global North and focuses narrowly on sexual health and condom use. Building on prior measures of sexual communication, we developed a set of three scales to measure sexual communication attitudes, self-efficacy, and behavior in adolescent dating relationships and administered the measures to 793 first-year male undergraduates 18–24 years in Hanoi, Vietnam. We used factor analysis to explore and confirm factor structure and assess invariance across relationship history and over time, suggesting a seven-item, two-factor attitudes scale and five-item, unidimensional scales for efficacy and behavior. Participants reported positive attitudes toward sexual communication, with low-to-moderate self-efficacy and behavior. All scales showed good convergent and discriminant validity. These related measures may be useful for identifying individual attitudes, self-efficacy, and behavior relevant to sexual violence prevention programming for adolescents.

摘要

性交流提高了双方的关系质量以及性和生殖健康。许多关于青少年性交流的研究都是在全球北方地区进行的，并且只关注性健康和安全套的使用。在先前的性交流测量的基础上，我们开发了一套三个量表来测量青少年约会关系中的性交流态度、自我效能和行为，并在越南河内对 793 名 18-24 岁的一年级男性本科生进行了测量. 我们使用因子分析来探索和确认因子结构并评估跨关系历史和随着时间的不变性，建议使用七项、两因素态度量表和五项、一维量表来衡量功效和行为。参与者报告了对性交流的积极态度，自我效能感和行为从低到中。所有量表均显示出良好的收敛效度和区分效度。这些相关措施可能有助于确定与青少年性暴力预防计划相关的个人态度、自我效能和行为。