title: Stigma Scale for Receiving Psychological Help (SSRPH): An Examination Among Adolescent Girls.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA Mdpinto@emory.edu.
authors.forename: Melissa D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Ronald L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Hickman
authors.affiliation: Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Tami L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011613:Psychotherapy; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057545:Social Stigma
keywords: adolescents; confirmatory factor analysis; public stigma; self-stigma; test–retest reliability
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