Evaluating the validity and reliability of a modified schedule of sexist events: implications for public health research on women's HIV risk behaviors

Women Health. 2008;47(2):19-40. doi: 10.1080/03630240802092175.

Abstract

This study evaluated the validity and reliability of a modified version of the Schedule of Sexist Events-Lifetime (SSE, Klonoff & Landrine, 1995) (SSE-LM) and its applicability to women's HIV risk behaviors. Participants included a multi-ethnic baseline sample of women (N = 754) between the ages of 18 and 39 years (M = 22.43) who attended family planning clinics in the San Francisco Bay area. Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that a higher-order factor model provided a satisfactory and a more parsimonious account for correlations among the measure's four sexism factors than a single latent factor model. Scale reliability for the SSE-LM was excellent (Cronbach' s alpha = .89). Structural equation modeling results demonstrated that the SSE-LM is associated with women's sexual risk behaviors with secondary partners, but not primary partners.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • California / epidemiology
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Ethnicity / statistics & numerical data*
  • Female
  • HIV Infections / ethnology*
  • HIV Infections / prevention & control*
  • Health Behavior / ethnology*
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice*
  • Health Promotion / methods
  • Humans
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Risk-Taking
  • Safe Sex / ethnology
  • Safe Sex / statistics & numerical data
  • Sexual Behavior / ethnology*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Women's Health