Favorable Education Injunctive Norm
Favorable Education Injunctive Norm
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.
ITEMS:
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. Others/in-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
PSYCHOMETRIC SCORE
GEOGRAPHIES TESTED:
POPULATIONS INCLUDED:
Female
AGE RANGE:
Adolescents
Scoring Procedures:
All responses are summed to calculate a final score.
PRIMARY CITATION:
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
Psychometric Score:
Qualitative Research
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Field Expert Input
Cognitive Interviews / Pilot Testing
Internal
Test-retest
Interrater
Content
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Criterion (gold-standard)
Construct
Psychometric Scoring
Total Score: 4.00/8 Points (MEDIUM)
Citation Frequency
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FULL POINTS PARTIAL POINTS NOT ASSESSED NOT APPLICABLEFor more details, see Scoring Methodology
