Peer Mental Health Stigmatization Scale: Psychometric properties of a questionnaire for children and adolescents

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 163-170

  Mckeague, Lynn ^a   Hennessy, Eilis ^b   O'Driscoll, Claire ^b   Heary, Caroline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Mental health; Questionnaire development; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTELLIGENCE; IRELAND; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PARAMETERS; PEER MENTAL HEALTH STIGMATIZATION SCALE; PREJUDICE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; STEREOTYPY; STIGMA; STIGMA AGREEMENT; STIGMA AWARENESS; STRENGTHS AND DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

EID: 84938975758     PISSN: 1475357X     EISSN: 14753588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/camh.12088     Document Type: Article

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