Parental Attitudes of Gender Expansiveness Scale for Youth (Hidalgo et al., 2017)

• Populations: Adolescent and young adult outpatients of interdisciplinary gender-health clinics
• Age ranges: 12-24 years
• Languages: English
• Countries: United States

Items

Subscales:

• Perceived parental nonaffirmation
• Perceived parental acceptance

Item numbers followed by R are reverse coded

• My parent(s) are proud of me 
• R My parent(s) are ashamed of me 
• R My parent(s) try to hide me 
• I can be myself around my parent(s) 
• My parent(s) advocate for my rights as a gender-expansive/trans* child
• My parent(s) protect me and defend me against others prejudice against gender-expansive/trans* people
• R My parent(s) have problems with my gender expression
• R My parent(s) use rewards or treats to pressure me to live as my sex assigned at birth
• I can talk to my parent(s) about romantic relationships and dating
• R My parent(s) worry about how my gender identity will affect our family’s image
• R My parent(s) probably believe they are bad parent(s) because I am gender-expansive/trans*
• R My parent(s) probably believe that I am gender-expansive/trans* because of something they did wrong
• My parent(s) are supportive of my gender transition 
• R My parent(s) are worried that my gender identity is a bad influence on other kids in my family

Responses:

Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale ranging from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree,”

Scoring

“Using a 5-point Likert scale ranging from ‘‘strongly disagree’’ to ‘‘strongly agree,’’ .... Values of 1–5 were assigned to each item, such that a higher score was indicative of greater parental support.” (Hidalgo et al., 2017) 

Citations

Hidalgo, M. A., Chen, D., Garofalo, R., & Forbes, C. (2017). Perceived Parental Attitudes of Gender Expansiveness: Development and Preliminary Factor Structure of a Self-Report Youth Questionnaire. Transgender Health, 2(1), 180–187. https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2017.0036