Jeon M E, Kurtz A J, Udupa N S, Gratz K L, Tull M T, Joiner T E
Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.
The University of Toledo, OH, USA.
Assessment. 2024 Sep 18:10731911241273386. doi: 10.1177/10731911241273386.
The Perceived Invalidation of Emotions Scale (PIES), developed to measure emotional invalidation, could aid research efforts on various internalizing disorders and minority mental health. A prerequisite for its use includes its psychometric evaluation in diverse samples; thus, the current study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the PIES in a combined sample of minoritized adults ( = 876). Results supported a unidimensional structure of the PIES that was invariant across the two minoritized samples, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and intersections of race/ethnicity and sexual orientation. A reduced 7- and 4-item PIES with improved unidimensionality and consequentially more interpretable total scores were generated using item response theory analyses. Significant correlations observed between theoretically relevant constructs of adverse mental health outcomes and the PIES above and beyond identity-based discrimination supported the construct validity of the PIES. Implications include the disproportionate amount of emotional invalidation experienced by individuals with minoritized sexual orientation, which may reflect the recent increases in discrimination faced by these individuals.
用于测量情绪忽视的感知情绪无效量表（PIES）有助于开展针对各种内化障碍和少数群体心理健康的研究工作。使用该量表的一个前提条件是在不同样本中对其进行心理测量学评估；因此，本研究旨在评估PIES在少数群体成年人合并样本（n = 876）中的心理测量学特性。结果支持了PIES的单维结构，该结构在两个少数群体样本、种族/族裔、性别、性取向以及种族/族裔与性取向的交叉群体中具有不变性。运用项目反应理论分析得出了一个精简版的7项和4项PIES，其单维性得到改善，总分也更具可解释性。在基于身份的歧视之外，不良心理健康结果的理论相关构念与PIES之间观察到显著相关性，这支持了PIES的结构效度。研究结果表明，性取向属于少数群体的个体经历了过多的情绪忽视，这可能反映了这些个体最近面临的歧视增加。
