Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness-10
10-item scale measuring a person's internalized stigma about their own mental illness.
Purpose
Self-report research instrument, reproduced here under an open license for non-diagnostic educational, research, and self-reflection use.
Details
Scientific Documentation
- Developer / Author
- Original 29-item ISMI: Ritsher, J. B., Otilingam, P. G., & Grajales, M.; 10-item short form: Boyd, J. E., Adler, E. P., Otilingam, P. G., & Peters, T.
- Development Year
- 2003
Theoretical framework: Measures the degree to which a person with mental illness has internalized public stigma about mental illness.
Reliability: Published studies of both the full and short forms report good internal consistency.
Validity: Validated across multiple countries and psychiatric populations; the short form correlates strongly with the original full-length measure.
References: Ritsher, J. B., Otilingam, P. G., & Grajales, M. (2003). Internalized stigma of mental illness: psychometric properties of a new measure. Psychiatry Research, 121(1), 31-49. Short form: Boyd, J. E., Adler, E. P., Otilingam, P. G., & Peters, T. (2014). Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness (ISMI) scale: a multinational review. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 55(1), 221-231.
License: CC BY 4.0. Citation: van Beukering et al. (2022), BMC Psychiatry, 22.
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