The Slut-Shaming Instrument: Preliminary validation, correlates, and links with psychological distress among adolescent girls

Despite social awareness of the problem of slut-shaming for adolescent girls, no existing measure captures this construct. Using data from a sample of 202 girls from Québec, Canada (ages 14-17; 68% White), preliminary validation is provided for the Slut-Shaming Instrument, a seven-item measure of ne...

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Published in:Journal of research on adolescence 2023-12, Vol.33 (4), p.1447-1457
Main Authors: Martin-Storey, Alexa, Dirks, Melanie, Paquette, Geneviève, Boutin, Stéphanie, Dryburgh, Nicole S J, Leduc, Karissa, Bolduc, Marie-Louise, Temcheff, Caroline
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent girls
Bullying
Everyday life
Female
Girls
Humans
Indexes
Measures
Peer Group
Peer relationships
Peers
Psychological Distress
Quantitative psychology
Reliability
Reproducibility of Results
Sexual behavior
Sexual harassment
Sexual Harassment - psychology
Sexual violence
Sexualization
Social perception
Surveys and Questionnaires
Victimization
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Summary:Despite social awareness of the problem of slut-shaming for adolescent girls, no existing measure captures this construct. Using data from a sample of 202 girls from Québec, Canada (ages 14-17; 68% White), preliminary validation is provided for the Slut-Shaming Instrument, a seven-item measure of negative peer experiences related to being perceived as too sexually active, sexualized, or flirtatious. The measure showed strong psychometric properties including good reliability and factor structure, expected associations with daily experiences of slut-related victimization and sexual harassment, and links with number of sexual partners and other forms of peer victimization. Slut-shaming was associated with distress accounting for these other forms of victimization (including sexual harassment), suggesting the pertinence of addressing this type of gender-based victimization.
ISSN:1050-8392
1532-7795
DOI:10.1111/jora.12876