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Children of Parents with a Mental Illness – Stigma Questionnaire (COPMI-SQ): Development and Piloting
Children of parents with a mental illness are a particularly vulnerable group as they have a high risk to develop a mental disorder themselves and those are associated with high stigma. Moreover, just like primary recipients of stigma, they are affected by the social taboo surrounding mental illn...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
2022
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| Summary: | Children of parents with a mental illness are a particularly vulnerable group as
they have a high risk to develop a mental disorder themselves and those are
associated with high stigma. Moreover, just like primary recipients of stigma, they
are affected by the social taboo surrounding mental illness: they do not receive
enough information, are often left alone with their problems, and are thus considered
“invisible children”. In previous research, family stigma has only been assessed through
general questionnaires for all family members. What has not yet been adequately
investigated is how stigma difficulties affect the children of parents with mental illness
in particular. To address these limitations, we developed the Children of Parents with
Mental Illness-Stigma-Questionnaire (COPMI-SQ), a self-report instrument for young
people aged 12–19 years, designed to assess young people’s stigma experiences
in daily life. Based on a systematic review preceding the questionnaire, we identified
relevant stigma dimensions for children of parents with a mental illness that resulted
in 93 items that according to theory were assumed to load on four different scales:
experienced stigma, anticipated stigma, self-stigma, and structural discrimination. An
expert discussion, and a comprehensibility analysis with the target group followed.
In this paper, we report on the development process and initial pilot data (N = 32)
on the psychometric properties of the COPMI-SQ. Item analyses via an item difficulty
index, discriminatory power, as well as internal consistency analysis resulted in a revised
instrument reduced to 67 items. We observed very high internal consistencies (between α
= 0.868 and α = 0.975) for the subscales. The approach taken to develop the COPMI-SQ
followed scientifically accepted principles by ensuring different construction phases and
is considered a solid basis for further reliability and validity studies. The study is ongoing
and undergoing a further validation investigation; dimensionality and factor structure will
also be examined. |
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| Item Description: | Gefördert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der UB Marburg. |
| Physical Description: | 16 Pages |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.800037 |