Favorable Education Descriptive Norm is a 7-item measure of descriptive norms related to adolescent girls' education. The measure asks respondents for reasons why adolescent girls in the community are absent from school, why they attend school and other educational habits as compared to boys.
Geographies Tested: Ethiopia
Populations Included: Female
Age Range: Adolescents
Most adolescent girls:
1. Are absent from school to do
household chores
2. Who go to school engage in
premarital sex
3. Are less attentive in their education than boys
4. Drop out of school once they
get married
5. Negotiate financial support
for their school needs
6. Earn income and provide for
the family, instead of going to
school
7. Earn an income to cover their
school needs
Response Options:
Do not know - 0
Strongly unfavorable response - 1
Unfavorable response - 2
Favorable response - 3
Strongly favorable response - 4
All responses are summed to calculate a final score between 0 and 28.
Berhane, Y., Worku, A., Tewahido, D., Fasil, N., Gulema, H., Tadesse, A. W., & Abdelmenan, S. (2019). Adolescent girls' agency significantly correlates with favorable social norms in Ethiopia-Implications for improving sexual and reproductive health of young adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 64(4S), S52-S59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.12.018
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