Measuring Self- and Co-Regulation in Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Programs Part 1

OMB Control No: 0970-0356

Expiration Date: 02/29/2024

Instrument A: Youth self-regulation survey

DRAFT

February 2023

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This collection of information is voluntary and will be used to provide the Administration for Children and Families with information to help refine and guide program development in the area of adolescent pregnancy prevention. Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated to average 10 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and reviewing the collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB number and expiration date for this collection are OMB #: 0970-0356, Exp: 02/29/2024. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Tiffany Waits at [email protected]..

Thank you in advance for taking this survey! The purpose of this short survey is to learn about how you think and feel about the things that happen around you and how you act in different situations.

This study is sponsored by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is being conducted by Mathematica.

Your participation in this survey is voluntary. There are no risks or benefits associated with completing the survey, which should take about 10 minutes. We will not collect any personal information (for example, your name, email, or phone number) as part of the survey. Your answers will remain private, except as required by law, and no teachers, staff, or peers from your school will see your individual responses. We hope you answer all survey questions, but you may skip any question you do not want to answer.

If you have any questions or comments about this information collection, contact Tiffany Waits, the survey director, at [email protected] or (202) 264-3498. If you have any questions or concerns about your rights as a study participant, please contact the Health Media Lab Institutional Review Board at (202) 246-8504.

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[IF PAPER]: By completing this survey, you are agreeing to participate in this research study.

1. You will be asked to take this survey twice, once before the program begins and once after the program ends. In order to protect your privacy, we will not collect any identifying information on this survey. Instead, your answers to the following questions will be used to connect your pre-program survey responses to your post-program survey responses without us needing your name. It is important that these answers stay the same between surveys.

a. What is the first letter of your first name?

A 1 m	F 6 m	K 11 m	P 16 m	U 21 m	Z 26 m
B 2 m	G 7 m	L 12 m	Q 17 m	V 22 m
C 3 m	H 8 m	M 13 m	R 18 m	W 23 m
D 4 m	I 9 m	N 14 m	S 19 m	X 24 m
E 5 m	J 10 m	O 15 m	T 20 m	Y 25 m

b. On what day of the month were you born?

1 1 m	6 6 m	11 11 m	16 16 m	21 21 m	26 26 m	31 31 m
2 2 m	7 7 m	12 12 m	17 17 m	22 22 m	27 27 m
3 3 m	8 8 m	13 13 m	18 18 m	23 23 m	28 28 m
4 4 m	9 9 m	14 14 m	19 19 m	24 24 m	29 29 m
5 5 m	10 10 m	15 15 m	20 20 m	25 25 m	30 30 m

c. What is the second letter of your last name?

A 1 m	F 6 m	K 11 m	P 16 m	U 21 m	Z 26 m
B 2 m	G 7 m	L 12 m	Q 17 m	V 22 m
C 3 m	H 8 m	M 13 m	R 18 m	W 23 m
D 4 m	I 9 m	N 14 m	S 19 m	X 24 m
E 5 m	J 10 m	O 15 m	T 20 m	Y 25 m

d. What is the first letter of the name of the street where you live?

A 1 m	F 6 m	K 11 m	P 16 m	U 21 m	Z 26 m
B 2 m	G 7 m	L 12 m	Q 17 m	V 22 m	Prefer not to say/unknown 27 m
C 3 m	H 8 m	M 13 m	R 18 m	W 23 m
D 4 m	I 9 m	N 14 m	S 19 m	X 24 m
E 5 m	J 10 m	O 15 m	T 20 m	Y 25 m

e. What is the first letter of your mother’s first name?

A 1 m	F 6 m	K 11 m	P 16 m	U 21 m	Z 26 m
B 2 m	G 7 m	L 12 m	Q 17 m	V 22 m
C 3 m	H 8 m	M 13 m	R 18 m	W 23 m
D 4 m	I 9 m	N 14 m	S 19 m	X 24 m
E 5 m	J 10 m	O 15 m	T 20 m	Y 25 m

2. Below are questions about ways people may feel or act. There are no right or wrong answers. Please answer each question honestly.

	MARK ONLY ONE PER ROW
How much do you feel the following are true for you?	NEVER	NOT OFTEN	SOMETIMES	OFTEN	ALMOST ALWAYS
I set goals for myself 1	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
I can find a way to stick with my plans and goals, even when it’s tough )2	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
I am good at keeping track of lots of things going on around me, even when I’m feeling stressed 2	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
I pay attention to how I feel3	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
When I’m upset, I lose control over my behavior 3	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
I can calm myself down when I’m excited 2	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
It is hard for me to stop myself from acting on my feelings 4	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
I can say “no” to a friend who wants to break the rules 1	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
Before making up my mind, I consider all the positives and negatives 4	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
I can resist doing something when I know I shouldn’t) 2	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
I can wait for what I want 5	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
I can remain calm when things go wrong for me 6	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
When I'm having fun, it’s hard to think about whether my actions might cause problems later. 4	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
When I don’t get my way, I will often say something that I later regret 4	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
When I'm upset, my emotions feel overwhelming 3	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
When I'm in a bad mood, I get frustrated with my friends more easily 1	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
I do things my friends are doing, whether I want to or not 4	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
I regret things I do when I'm with my friends	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
When my friends are feeling excited, I tend to get excited too 6	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m
I would rather get what I want today than wait for something better tomorrow 7	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m

Thank you for sharing your experiences with us today.

1 Adapted from the WCSD Social and Emotional Competency Long-Form Assessment (Washoe County School District, 2018)

2 Adapted from the Adolescent Self-Regulatory Inventory (ASRI; Moilanen 2007)

3 Adapted from the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) (Gratz, K. L. & Roemer, L, 2004)

4 Adapted from the Urgency, Premeditation (lack of), Perseverance (lack of), Sensation Seeking, Positive Urgency, Impulsive Behavior Scale (UPPS-P) (Lynam, Smith, Whiteside, & Cyders, 2006)

5 Adapted from the Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S) (Furlong, M. J., Dowdy, E., & Nylund-Gibson, K., 2018)

6 Adapted from the Panorama Social and Emotional Learning - Student Survey (Panorama Education, 2014)

7 Adapted from an untitled rating scale of self-control in children (Kendall & Wilcox, 1979)