ABSTRACT
Adolescents’ Attitudes About Sexual Relationship Rights (SRR) is a 10-item self-report measure of adolescents’ attitudes about their rights in a sexual relationship with a steady partner. It includes two subscales measuring rights to refuse unwanted sexual activity and to express sexual engagement needs. The SRR is intended for use with adolescents regardless of gender, race/ethnicity, relationship experience, sexual experience, and sexual orientation. The SRR analyses also yielded substantive implications in finding that attitudes about rights in sexual relationships cannot be considered a single, unidimensional construct. The SRR was developed as part of a randomized evaluation of a rights-based sexuality education intervention for high school students in Los Angeles, California. A review of the research literature found that existing measures were limited and not applicable for young, pre-sexually active adolescents who may not be heterosexual. The measure was validated in a sample of young adolescents living in low-income, primarily Hispanic communities in Los Angeles.
