Table 2. Sexual and reproductive stigma scale, sub-scale, and item descriptives.
| Agree % (n) |
Neutral/Disagree % (n) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Full SRH Stigma Scale (mean = 13.11 ± SD 3.78) | ||
| Enacted Stigma Sub-Scale (mean = 4.28 ± SD 1.42) | ||
| 1. People behave differently toward a teen who they know has had sex | 75.61 (803) | 24.39 (259) |
| 2. People behave differently toward a teen who they know has had an abortion | 82.29 (869) | 17.71 (187) |
| 3. People behave differently toward a teen who they know has used modern family planning methods | 61.25 (648) | 38.75 (410) |
| 4. Having sex as a teen often leads to getting beat or physically hurt by one's parents | 56.21 (593) | 43.79 (462) |
| 5. Becoming pregnant and having a baby as a teen would cause people to behave differently around me | 73.94 (783) | 26.06 (276) |
| 6. Becoming pregnant and having a baby as a teen would cause others to tease, insult, swear or gossip about me. | 78.73 (829) | 21.27 (224) |
| Internalized Stigma Sub-Scale (mean = 4.55 ± SD 1.82) | ||
| 7. Having sex as a teen is a form of disobedience | 71.52 (751) | 28.48 (299) |
| 8. Young women who have abortions are bad girls | 68.70 (722) | 31.30 (329) |
| 9. Young women who use modern family planning are promiscuous | 45.37 (480) | 54.63 (578) |
| 10. Teens who use modern family planning are viewed as bad girls | 65.37 (691) | 34.63 (366) |
| 11. Having sex as a teen brings disgrace and shame to a young woman and her family | 64.97 (690) | 35.03 (372) |
| 12. Becoming pregnant and having a baby as a teen would bring disgrace to my family | 70.96 (750) | 29.04 (307) |
| 13. Becoming pregnant and having a baby as a teen would make me feel ashamed and bad about myself. | 68.56 (724) | 31.44 (332) |
| Stigmatizing Lay Attitudes Sub-Scale (mean = 4.28 ± SD 1.47) | ||
| 14. Young women who have abortions will encourage others to have abortions | 64.24 (679) | 35.76 (378) |
| 15. Modern family planning is not acceptable for unmarried women | 31.39 (333) | 68.61 (728) |
| 16. Modern family planning methods have bad effects on a woman's health | 46.37 (492) | 53.63 (569) |
| 17. Having an abortion is committing murder | 91.56 (965) | 8.44 (89) |
| 18. The media, including the television, internet, or magazines, has a strong impact on teens' sexual behavior | 86.33 (916) | 13.67 (145) |
| 19. When teens have sex for the first time, it is usually because they were pressured by their friends or partners to do so. | 58.83 (623) | 41.17 (436) |
| 20. Children born to teen parents are worse off than those born to adults | 49.01 (519) | 50.99 (540) |
N = 1,063. Results presented as frequencies (n) and proportions (%) for scale item descriptives and as means with standard deviations (SD) for overall scale and sub-scale scores.