TY - JOUR
T1 - Reliability, Validity, and Associations With Sexual Behavior Among Ghanaian Teenagers of Scales Measuring Four Dimensions of Relationships With Parents and Other Adults
AU - Bingenheimer, Jeffrey B.
AU - Asante, Elizabeth A.
AU - Ahiadeke, Clement
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2013.
PY - 2015/4/20
Y1 - 2015/4/20
N2 - Little research has been done on the social contexts of adolescent sexual behaviors in sub-Saharan Africa. As part of a longitudinal cohort study (N = 1275) of teenage girls and boys in two Ghanaian towns, interviewers administered a 26-item questionnaire module intended to assess four dimensions of youth–adult relationships: monitoring, conflict, emotional support, and financial support. Confirmatory factor and traditional psychometric analyses showed the four scales to be reliable. Known-groups comparisons provided evidence of their validity. All four scales had strong bivariate associations with self-reported sexual behavior (odds ratios = 1.66, 0.74, 0.47, and 0.60 for conflict, support, monitoring, and financial support, respectively). The instrument is practical for use in sub-Saharan African settings and produces measures that are reliable, valid, and predictive of sexual behavior in youth.
AB - Little research has been done on the social contexts of adolescent sexual behaviors in sub-Saharan Africa. As part of a longitudinal cohort study (N = 1275) of teenage girls and boys in two Ghanaian towns, interviewers administered a 26-item questionnaire module intended to assess four dimensions of youth–adult relationships: monitoring, conflict, emotional support, and financial support. Confirmatory factor and traditional psychometric analyses showed the four scales to be reliable. Known-groups comparisons provided evidence of their validity. All four scales had strong bivariate associations with self-reported sexual behavior (odds ratios = 1.66, 0.74, 0.47, and 0.60 for conflict, support, monitoring, and financial support, respectively). The instrument is practical for use in sub-Saharan African settings and produces measures that are reliable, valid, and predictive of sexual behavior in youth.
KW - adolescents
KW - culture
KW - family processes
KW - parent/child relations
KW - sexuality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84925014619&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0192513X13497349
DO - 10.1177/0192513X13497349
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84925014619
SN - 0192-513X
VL - 36
SP - 647
EP - 668
JO - Journal of Family Issues
JF - Journal of Family Issues
IS - 5
ER -