Cross-Cultural Validation of the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help (PSOSH) Scale.
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Vogel, David L.Heath, Patrick J.
Engel, Kelsey E.
Brenner, Rachel E.
Strass, Haley A.
Al-Darmaki, Fatima Rashed
Armstrong, Patrick I.
Galbraith, Niall
Galbraith, Victoria
Baptista, Makilim Nunes
Gonçalves, Marta
Liao, Hsin-Ya
Mackenzie, Corey
Mak, Winnie W. S.
Rubin, Mark
Topkaya, Nursel
Wang, Ying-Fen
Zlati, Alina
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2017-11-02
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Social network stigma refers to the perceived negative views about seeking help for mental health problems that are held by those closest to an individual, such as family and friends. This form of stigma predicts help-seeking attitudes and intentions beyond other forms of stigma, and is predominantly measured using the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help scale (PSOSH; Vogel, Wade, & Ascheman, 2009). However, the PSOSH was normed using samples from the United States and, until the cross-cultural validity of this measure is established, it cannot reliably be used within other countries (Miller & Sheu, 2008). As such, the current study (N = 3,440) examined the cross-cultural measurement invariance of the PSOSH using the sequential constraint imposition approach across 11 countries/regions: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Portugal, Romania, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the United Kingdom (U.K.), and the United States (U.S.). Overall, findings indicate that the PSOSH measures a meaningful construct (i.e., configural and metric invariance) across the 11 countries/regions and that future cross-cultural research could use the PSOSH to examine relationships between social network stigma and other variables. Scalar invariance results also supported the examination of mean differences in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Portugal, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S., but not in Hong Kong, Romania, Taiwan, and UAE. Implications for future cross-cultural research are discussed.Citation
Vogel, D. L., Heath, P. J., Engel, K. E., Brenner, R. E., Strass, H. A., Al-Darmaki, F. R., Armstrong, P. I., Galbraith, N., Galbraith, V., Baptista, M. N., Gonçalves, M., Liao, H.-Y., Mackenzie, C., Mak, W. W. S., Rubin, M., Topkaya, N., Wang, Y.-F., & Zlati, A. (2017). Cross-cultural validation of the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help (PSOSH) Scale. Stigma and Health, 4(1), pp 82–85. doi: 10.1037/sah0000119Publisher
American Psychological AssociationJournal
Stigma and HealthAdditional Links
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2376-6972ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1037/sah0000119
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