Development and Validation of the Transgender/Nonbinary Identity Support From Partners Scale.

ABSTRACT: Transgender and/or nonbinary (TNB) people often highlight romantic partners as a key source of social support related to their TNB identity. Accordingly, there is a need for validated measures to quantify TNB identity support in romantic relationships. We used a multi-phase process to develop and evaluate a multidimensional measure of TNB identity support from romantic partners. First, we generated items based on prior qualitative research, then used cognitive interviews with six TNB young adults (ages 18-30 years) to refine the items. Second, we piloted 59 items in a survey of 321 TNB people (16 years and older) reporting on current or recent romantic relationships. Using those data, we performed exploratory factor analysis to identify subscales, then selected 19 items based on factor loa

SUBMITTER: Murchison GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12560257 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature