Sexual Assertiveness Of Adolescent Girls

Abstract

The purpose of the present research was to describe the sexual assertiveness of adolescent girls in Medan. Sample includes 1094 adolescent girls that have been selected using multistage cluster random sampling method, aged 15-18 years and live in Medan. Data for this study were obtained by using Skala Asertivitas Seksual untuk Perempuan Indonesia (SASPI or Sexual Assertiveness Scale for Indonesian Women) developed by Lubis and Oriza based Sexual Assertiveness Scale (SAS). The questionnaires consisted of two dimensions, initiative and rejection. The results showed that there was no subject that categorized into low sexual assertiveness; but rather categorized to the moderate sexual assertiveness category amounted to 49.72% and categorized into a high sexual assertiveness category amounted 50.28%. If categorization of sexual assertiveness viewed based on initiativeaspect, it can be seen that the low category amounted to 24.95%; moderate category amounted to 74.6% and the high category amounted to 0.45%. While in rejection aspect showed that no subject is classified into the low category, but rather fall into the moderate category amounted to 11.15% and high category amounted to 88.85%.