How to measure mental illness stigma at work: development and validation of the workplace mental illness stigma scale.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The study objective was to design a new theoretically driven multidimensional scale for the use in the empirical measurement of stigmatizing attitudes towards persons with mental illness within the return-to-work process as this integral part of vocational reintegration has been widely neglected by scholars so far.

Methods

Therefore, we developed and validated a 21-item instrument to comprehensively measure the three-factorial structure of stigmatizing attitudes (affect, cognition, behavior) across two studies (overall N = 251).

Results

In both studies the new scale proved to be highly internally consistent, and its proposed three-factor structure was equally supported across the two studies. Convergent and discriminant validity were demonstrated by moder

SUBMITTER: Matousian N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10369081 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature