Czech Adaptation of Scales Measuring Attitudes Toward Childfreeness: Psychometric Validation of the Attitudes Toward Voluntary Childlessness Scale and the Stereotypes About Childfree Adults Scale
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| Year of publication | 2026 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Voluntary childlessness (childfreeness), a topic of rising global relevance, remains underexplored in Central Europe, and particularly in Czechia. The present study aimed to adapt and validate two instruments measuring attitudes toward childfree adults for use in the Czech context – the Attitudes Toward Voluntary Childlessness Scale (AVCS) and the Stereotypes About Childfree Adults Scale (SAChA). Data from 248 participants (75 % women, aged 18-84, M = 33.96, SD = 14.71) were collected via an online survey. Internal consistency, reliability and validity were examined and both confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis were conducted. The Czech SAChA replicated the original unidimensional structure, while the AVCS emerged as a single-factor measure of general negative attitudes rather than the original three-factor model. Both scales showed positive correlations with hostile and benevolent sexism and negative correlations with interpersonal warmth toward childfree adults, confirming convergent and discriminant validity. Similar to preceding studies, men, married respondents, parents, religious participants, older individuals and those with higher income expressed more negative attitudes. These findings provide the first validated tools for assessing explicit attitudes toward childfree individuals in the specific Czech context that represents highly secular yet historically pronatalist society. |
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