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The ACSBI can be completed by a parent/caregiver or as by the adolescent being assessed.
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5 factors – Sexual knowledge/interest (13 items), Divergent sexual interests (9 items), Sexual risk misuse (8 items), Fear (7 items), and Concerns about appearance (4 items).
3-point scale from 1 (not true) to 3 (somewhat true)
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None (parent or self-report).
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The norms, reliability and validity statistics included in each measure profile are those reported by the author(s) of the measure. It is important to note that altering, adding or removing questions from a measure voids these reported statistics, possibly making the revised tool unreliable and invalid.
Development sample consisted of 174 teenagers aged 12-18 and their primary female caregivers recruited from an inpatient program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and from an outpatient program at a children’s hospital in Denver, CO. Norms are not available.
The author reports internal consistency coefficients ranging from 0.39-0.84. An additional study confirmed this, but with a more limited range of values (0.61-0.75). One-week test-retest reliability was reported as being 0.74.
Extensive concurrent and moderate convergent validities are reported.
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Free.
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Friedrich, W.N., Lysne, M., Sim, L., & Shamos, S. (2004). Assessing sexual behavior in high-risk adolescents with the Adolescent Clinical Sexual Behavior Inventory (ACSBI). Child Maltreatment, 9(3), 239-250.
