Assessing the Right to Interpersonal Relationships, Home and Family for People With Intellectual Disabilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognises in Article 23 the right to marriage, family, parenthood and interpersonal relationships. However, monitoring this right is challenging due to a lack of evaluation tools.

Method

This study presents the psychometric validation of items assessing Article 23, which makes up the interpersonal relationships subscale of the #Rights4MeToo Scale, based on responses from 1215 people with intellectual disabilities, family members and professionals.

Results

The findings revealed a final unidimensional 7-item structure, high internal consistency, full invariance across gender and partial invariance across respondent types.

Conclusions

This subscale is established as a helpful tool with adequate

SUBMITTER: Perez-Curiel P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12706181 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature