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Development and validity of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI): a value-sensitive questionnaire for the assessment of mental health stigma

BACKGROUND: It has been hypothesized that mental illness stigma differs according to what matters most to people, and that this results in value-based differences in stigma within societies. However, there is a lack of stigma measures that account for a broad range of values, including modern and li...

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Autores principales: Rieckhof, Sophia, Sander, Christian, Speerforck, Sven, Prestin, Elke, Angermeyer, Matthias C., Schomerus, Georg
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8594194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34781933
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03427-4
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author Rieckhof, Sophia
Sander, Christian
Speerforck, Sven
Prestin, Elke
Angermeyer, Matthias C.
Schomerus, Georg
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Sander, Christian
Speerforck, Sven
Prestin, Elke
Angermeyer, Matthias C.
Schomerus, Georg
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description BACKGROUND: It has been hypothesized that mental illness stigma differs according to what matters most to people, and that this results in value-based differences in stigma within societies. However, there is a lack of stigma measures that account for a broad range of values, including modern and liberal values. METHODS: For the development of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI) a preliminary item-pool of 68 VASI-items was assembled by mental health and stigma experts. For psychometric evaluation, we tested the VASI in an online sample of the general population (n = 4983). RESULTS: Based on item-characteristics as well as explorative and confirmatory factor analyses, a final version of the VASI was developed, comprising 15 items and 5 subscales. The VASI shows good psychometric properties (item difficulty = 0.34 to 0.67; mean inter-item correlation r = 0.326; Cronbach’s α = 0.879). Medium to high correlations with established stigma scales (SDS, SSMI), medium associations with instruments assessing personal values (PVQ, KSA-3) and small to no associations with a social desirability scale (KSE-G) attest to good convergent and discriminatory validity of the new instrument. Normative values for the VASI subscales are presented. CONCLUSIONS: The developed VASI can be used to assess public stigma of mental illness including personal stigma-relevant value orientations. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12888-021-03427-4.
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spelling pubmed-85941942021-11-16 Development and validity of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI): a value-sensitive questionnaire for the assessment of mental health stigma Rieckhof, Sophia Sander, Christian Speerforck, Sven Prestin, Elke Angermeyer, Matthias C. Schomerus, Georg BMC Psychiatry Research BACKGROUND: It has been hypothesized that mental illness stigma differs according to what matters most to people, and that this results in value-based differences in stigma within societies. However, there is a lack of stigma measures that account for a broad range of values, including modern and liberal values. METHODS: For the development of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI) a preliminary item-pool of 68 VASI-items was assembled by mental health and stigma experts. For psychometric evaluation, we tested the VASI in an online sample of the general population (n = 4983). RESULTS: Based on item-characteristics as well as explorative and confirmatory factor analyses, a final version of the VASI was developed, comprising 15 items and 5 subscales. The VASI shows good psychometric properties (item difficulty = 0.34 to 0.67; mean inter-item correlation r = 0.326; Cronbach’s α = 0.879). Medium to high correlations with established stigma scales (SDS, SSMI), medium associations with instruments assessing personal values (PVQ, KSA-3) and small to no associations with a social desirability scale (KSE-G) attest to good convergent and discriminatory validity of the new instrument. Normative values for the VASI subscales are presented. CONCLUSIONS: The developed VASI can be used to assess public stigma of mental illness including personal stigma-relevant value orientations. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12888-021-03427-4. BioMed Central 2021-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8594194/ /pubmed/34781933 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03427-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Rieckhof, Sophia
Sander, Christian
Speerforck, Sven
Prestin, Elke
Angermeyer, Matthias C.
Schomerus, Georg
Development and validity of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI): a value-sensitive questionnaire for the assessment of mental health stigma
title Development and validity of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI): a value-sensitive questionnaire for the assessment of mental health stigma
title_full Development and validity of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI): a value-sensitive questionnaire for the assessment of mental health stigma
title_fullStr Development and validity of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI): a value-sensitive questionnaire for the assessment of mental health stigma
title_full_unstemmed Development and validity of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI): a value-sensitive questionnaire for the assessment of mental health stigma
title_short Development and validity of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI): a value-sensitive questionnaire for the assessment of mental health stigma
title_sort development and validity of the value-based stigma inventory (vasi): a value-sensitive questionnaire for the assessment of mental health stigma
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8594194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34781933
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03427-4
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