Abstract

Assessing sexual attitude, impulse, knowledge and coping behavior is vital to develop and evaluate sex counseling and education on adolescents. The Sexuality Inventory for Middle School Students was developed based on the preliminary version of Sexuality Inventory for Adolescents by Park and Chun(2001). Final set of items was selected through item analysis in which item difficulty and item-total correlation of the Sexual Knowledge Scale and factor structure of the Sexual Attitude, Impulse, and Coping Behavior Scale were examined on 611 middle school students. Reliability and validity of the final inventory were examined in the second analysis on 1,231 middle school students. Internal consistency coefficients of subscales constructed of each factor in scales ranged from .74 to .94 and all subscales over .76. Factor analysis indicated 5 factors(liberalism. tolerance on deviant sex, lack of prevention, progressivism on homosexuality, & positivity on masturbation) in Sexual Attitude Scale, 3 factors(sexual deviation impulse, masturbation anxiety, & cybersex addiction) in Sexual Impulse Scale and 2 factors(sexual desire control & sexual desire expression) in Sexual Coping Behavior Scale. Both the first and second factor analysis revealed the same result. High correlations between sexual behaviors and scores on the related scales were obtained. Scores of high graders and boys in these scales were higher than those of low graders in all of the scales with the exception of the cybersex addiction subscale.