The Short Internalized Homonegativity Scale: Examination of the Factorial Structure of a New Measure of Internalized Homophobia
| Autor: | Everarda G. Cunningham, Bruce M. Findlay, Matthew R. Currie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Psychometrics
Applied Mathematics media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050401 social sciences methods 050301 education Test validity Computer-assisted web interviewing Confirmatory factor analysis Education 0504 sociology Rating scale Scale (social sciences) Developmental and Educational Psychology Homosexuality Construct (philosophy) Psychology 0503 education Social psychology Applied Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Educational and Psychological Measurement. 64:1053-1067 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3888 0013-1644 |
| Popis: | The purpose of the study was to develop a short measure of internalized homophobia (IH), one that reflected contemporary attitudes toward homosexuality and included items designed to assess the domain of sexual comfort with gay men, a domain that has been notably absent from other measures of IH. The Short Internalized Homonegativity Scale (SIHS) was informed by the Reactions to Homosexuality Scale (RHS) and the contention that currently available measures of IH were outdated in their assessment of the construct and/or failed to assess its covert manifestations. A geographically diverse sample of gay men completed an online questionnaire ( N = 1,307), and the 677 respondents from the United States formed the sample for the study. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a single higher order construct of IH comprising the lower order factors of Public Identification as Gay, Sexual Comfort With Gay Men, and Social Comfort With Gay Men. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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