Favorable Education Injunctive Norm is a 6-item measure of injunctive norms related to adolescent girls' education. The measure assesses what the respondents think their communities expect from adolescent girls with regards to their education.
Geographies Tested: Ethiopia
Populations Included: Female
Age Range: Adolescents
Most people expect girls in the community:
1. To have the same opportunity
in education as boys
2. To do household chores instead
of going to school
3. Parents think adolescent girls
who go to school engage in
premarital sex
4. Parents think adolescent girls
are less attentive in their
education than boys
5. Othersin-laws expect girls to
stop attending school once
they are married
6. Parents expect adolescent girls
to earn an income and provide
for the family instead of going
to school
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.
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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