Validation in Spanish and English of the Transgender Inclusive Behavior Scale.

Autor: Alonso-Martínez L; Department of Health Science, Faculty of Health Science, University of Burgos, Paseo de los Comendadores, 09001, Burgos, Spain. lamartinez@ubu.es., Heras-Sevilla D; Department of Science of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain., Fernández-Hawrylak M; Department of Science of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain., Hönekopp J; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK., Forrest S; Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK., Kattari SK; Department of Women's and Gender Studies, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Archives of sexual behavior [Arch Sex Behav] 2024 Nov; Vol. 53 (10), pp. 3769-3784. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 19.
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-024-02982-7
Abstrakt: The Transgender Inclusive Behavior Scale (TIBS) seeks to measure transgender-inclusive behavior, specifically actions and language use that support transgender people. The TIBS was developed in the United States. This study aimed to develop a Spanish version of the TIBS and confirm the structure of the English version to explore the psychometric properties and evaluate the construct validity in new contexts. We examined predictors of transgender-inclusive behavior by conducting a comparative analysis between participants from Spain and the United Kingdom. The study involved 1,110 university students, with 545 participants hailing from Spain (375 women, 162 men, and 8 non-binary individuals) and 565 participants from the United Kingdom (368 women, 178 men, and 19 non-binary individuals). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted to investigate and validate the factorial structure of the TIBS. The factor analysis results for the 15 items on the scale confirmed a three-dimensional structure in both languages. The scale score reliability was excellent with a Cronbach's alpha (α) = .95 in the British sample and with an α = .89 in the Spanish sample. Being a woman, being lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and/or asexual, and being non-religious were the strongest predictors of inclusive behaviors towards transgender people in both countries. The correlations found indicated that people with lower sexual risk behaviors, and lower sexist, homophobic, and transphobic attitudes also presented higher inclusive behaviors towards trans people. These findings support the development of community strategies to increase the social inclusion of transgender people. The TIBS is a useful measure to track their success.
Competing Interests: Declarations. Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest to conduct this research. Ethical Approval: The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethics Committee of Universidad de Burgos (protocol code IR 24/2019 and 28/05/2018), Newcastle University (protocol code IR 24/2019 and 15/07/2019), and Northumbria University (protocol code IR 22995 and 01/03/2020). No potential conflict of interest and funding was reported by the authors. Informed consent: All participants were provided with an informed consent form prior to participating in the research. After reading the informed consent, they voluntarily agreed to take part, confirming that they had read and understood the information provided. Additionally, participants were informed of the contact details for the principal investigator as well as the relevant institutional ethics committee for any inquiries or concerns. Consent to Participate: All study participants provided informed consent to participate in this research.
(© 2024. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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