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Front. Psychol.
Sec. Quantitative Psychology and Measurement
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1531749
Psychometric properties of the Transgender Identity Stigma scale in Argentina
Provisionally accepted
Jeffrey Wilmer Ramos-Santiago1*
Romina Caballero2Virginia Zalazar2
Pablo David Radusky2Nadir Cardozo2Boris Brunori2Alixida Ramos-Pibernus3Ana Paula Cupertino1Raul Mejia2
Francisco Cartujano-Barrera4
Ines Aristegui2- 1Department of Surgery & Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, United States
- 2Research Department, Fundacion Huesped, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 3Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce, Puerto Rico
- 4Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, United States
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Transgender identity stigma (TIS) threatens the well-being of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals. To the best of our knowledge, there are no validated TIS measures developed for TGD individuals living in Argentina. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a TIS scale among a sample of TGD individuals living in Argentina.This study consisted of a secondary data analysis of the TransCITAR cohort study. Participants were 484 TGD individuals living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Items from the HIV Stigma Index and the Everyday Discrimination Scale were combined and adapted to design the TIS scale. Item reduction analyses were carried out. Keyser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test of sampling adequacy and Bartlett's Test of Sphericity were examined to verify the factorability of the scale. Exploratory factor analyses (EFA) were conducted using a principal component method with promax rotation to identify the underlying factors of the scale.The KMO value was 0.83 and the Bartlett's Test of Sphericity showed correlations between the variables (χ2 = 5,901.26, d.f. = 66, P <.001). Upon demonstrating factorability, an EFA was calculated with the 12 items selected for the final version of the TIS scale. Two factors were extracted, explaining 72% of the total variance.The TIS scale showed great internal consistency, reliability, and construct and criterion validity among TGD individuals living in Argentina, with applicability in both research and clinical settings.
Keywords: Transgender Identity, stigma, transgender and gender-diverse, Psychometric, scale development
Received: 20 Nov 2024; Accepted: 11 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Ramos-Santiago, Caballero, Zalazar, Radusky, Cardozo, Brunori, Ramos-Pibernus, Cupertino, Mejia, Cartujano-Barrera and Aristegui. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jeffrey Wilmer Ramos-Santiago, Department of Surgery & Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, United States
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