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The Stigma Scale for Receiving Professional Psychological Help (SSRPH) demonstrated excellent model fit and 8-week stability in adolescent girls, yielding a Cronbach's alpha of 0.65.
Observational (n=156)
Effect estimate: Cronbach's alpha 0.65
The SSRPH shows beginning evidence for construct validity and stability in adolescent girls, though internal consistency is modest and concurrent validity was not supported.
SSRPH shows initial stability in adolescent girls but modest consistency warrants caution; leaves open full validation for clinical use.
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.
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Mesagno et al. (2013) conducted an observational in Stigma regarding professional psychological help (n=156). Stigma Scale for Receiving Professional Psychological Help (SSRPH) was evaluated on Reliability and validity of the SSRPH (Cronbach's alpha 0.65). The Stigma Scale for Receiving Professional Psychological Help (SSRPH) demonstrated excellent model fit and 8-week stability in adolescent girls, yielding a Cronbach's alpha of 0.65.
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