Stigma Scale for Receiving Psychological Help (SSRPH): An Examination Among Adolescent Girls

Stigma is one of the greatest obstacles to care and impedes recovery. The Stigma Scale for Receiving Professional Psychological Help (SSRPH), a measure of public stigma, has been used in young adults and has limited psychometric data in adolescents. This article reports the reliability and validity...

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Published inWestern journal of nursing research Vol. 37; no. 12; p. 1644
Main Authors Pinto, Melissa D, Hickman, Ronald L, Thomas, Tami L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.12.2015
Subjects
Adolescent
Female
Humans
Psychology, Adolescent
Psychotherapy
Reproducibility of Results
Social Stigma
public stigma
confirmatory factor analysis
self-stigma
test–retest reliability
adolescents
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Summary:Stigma is one of the greatest obstacles to care and impedes recovery. The Stigma Scale for Receiving Professional Psychological Help (SSRPH), a measure of public stigma, has been used in young adults and has limited psychometric data in adolescents. This article reports the reliability and validity of the SSRPH in adolescent girls (N = 156, age = 13-17). Discriminant validity was supported, but concurrent validity was not. The confirmatory factor analysis revealed excellent model fit and serves as beginning evidence for construct validity. Cronbach's alpha for the SSRPH was .65. The SSRPH was stable over 8 weeks. Findings suggest that the SSRPH can serve as a foundation for further instrument development. Future studies may explore enhancing the reliability and validity of the SSRPH and use advanced analytic techniques to examine the overall global construct of stigma, the latent constructs of public and private stigma, and associations of individual items to these constructs.
ISSN:1552-8456
DOI:10.1177/0193945914543954