Appendix for breakdown of subscale items. Self-esteem - This measure Respondents are The SISE has good Item Self-Esteem consists of one item, asked to rate their construct validity, Scale (SISE; Robins, “I have high self-esteem from when compared to Hendin, & 5, 1 being low and 5 other measures of Trzesniewski, 2001) being high. self-esteem (Robins, Hendin, & Trzesniewski, 2001) Gender 11-item measure Response choices This measure has an stereotyping developed from the are on a four-point internal consistency attitudes - Gender SAFE DATES scale ranging from of .67 Stereotyping Among curriculum and is strongly agree to For this study the Adolescents (Foshee used to evaluate the strongly disagree. cronbach’s alpha et al., 1998) rigidity of sex roles A high score on this was measured to among adolescents, measure indicates be.86 at T1 and .81 e.g., “In a dating that the participant at T2. relationship the boy holds fewer should be smarter traditional gender than the girl”. stereotypes, whilst a high score suggests they hold more. An overall score is calculated by adding all of the items together. Overall scores will be used in data analysis. Procedure See above for procedure on questionnaire completion. For the interviews, the facilitator requested one participant from each project take part in an interview with the researcher. Participants’ who volunteered first were selected to take part in an interview immediately after the last session in each group. The interviews took place with only the participant and the researcher present. All participants received a information sheet with named organisations to contact if they needed further support. Quantitative analysis
Appendix for breakdown of subscale items. Self-esteem - Self-Esteem Scale (SISE; Robins, Hendin, & Trzesniewski, 2001) This measure consists of one item, “I have high Respondents are asked to rate their self-esteem from 1 being low and 5 being high. The SISE has good construct validity, when compared to other measures of self-esteem (Robins, Hendin, & Trzesniewski, 2001) Gender stereotyping attitudes - Gender Stereotyping Among Adolescents (Foshee et al., 1998) 11-item measure developed from the SAFE DATES curriculum and is used to evaluate the rigidity of sex roles among adolescents, e.g., “In a dating relationship the boy should be smarter than the girl”. Response choices are on a four-point scale ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree. A high score on this measure indicates that the participant holds fewer traditional gender stereotypes, whilst a high score suggests they hold more. An overall score is calculated by adding all of the items together. Overall scores will be used in data analysis. This measure has an internal consistency of .67 For this study the cronbach’s alpha was measured to be.86 at T1 and .81 at T2. Procedure See above for procedure on questionnaire completion. For the interviews, the facilitator requested one participant from each project take part in an interview with the researcher. Participants’ who volunteered first were selected to take part in an interview immediately after the last session in each group. The interviews took place with only the participant and the researcher present. All participants received a information sheet with named organisations to contact if they needed further support. Quantitative analysis Item 5,