Herrman Judith W, Nandakumar Ratna
University of Delaware, School of Nursing, Newark, DE 19716, USA.
J Nurs Meas. 2012;20(1):3-20. doi: 10.1891/1061-3749.20.1.3.
Initiatives designed to prevent teen pregnancy are often based on adult perceptions of the negative aspects of a teen birth. Qualitative research has revealed that teens may perceive positive rewards associated with teen parenting. These perceptions have not yet been examined through survey research. The theory of reasoned action proposes that individuals assess the costs and rewards prior to engaging in a behavior and provides a framework for the development of a survey instrument designed to measure adolescent thoughts about the costs and rewards of the teen parenting experience. This manuscript describes the development and testing of a quantitative survey instrument designed to measure adolescents' perceptions. Pretesting, piloting, exploratory factor analysis, and a variety of reliability and validity measures were used to determine the value of the measure. The thoughts on teen parenting survey (TTPS) demonstrates an alpha level of .90. The TTPS yields a cumulative score of teen perceptions about the impact of a teen birth during the adolescent years that may be used to assess youth beliefs, correlated with demographic data, used to identify teens at risk for pregnancy/parenting, or provide a pretest/posttest to assess the effectiveness of interventions designed to foster realistic attitudes toward teen parenting.
旨在预防青少年怀孕的举措通常基于成年人对青少年生育负面影响的认知。定性研究表明，青少年可能会察觉到与青少年为人父母相关的积极回报。这些认知尚未通过调查研究进行检验。理性行动理论提出，个体在采取某种行为之前会评估成本和回报，并为开发一种调查工具提供了框架，该工具旨在衡量青少年对青少年为人父母经历的成本和回报的看法。本文描述了一种旨在测量青少年认知的定量调查工具的开发和测试过程。通过预测试、试点测试、探索性因素分析以及各种信效度测量方法来确定该测量工具的价值。青少年为人父母观念调查（TTPS）的阿尔法系数为0.90。TTPS得出了青少年对青少年生育在青春期影响的累积认知得分，该得分可用于评估青少年的信念，与人口统计学数据相关联，用于识别有怀孕/为人父母风险的青少年，或提供前后测试以评估旨在培养对青少年为人父母现实态度的干预措施的有效性。
