Preoccupation with Disclosure of Parents’ Sexual Orientation Scale (Vyncke et al., 2011)

• Populations: Adolescents
• Age ranges: 12-18
• Languages: English, French
• Countries: Canada

Items

• I worry that people will find out that my mother is a lesbian.
• I don’t want friends to come to my house in case they find out that my mother is a lesbian.
• I don’t mind answering people’s questions about my mother.
• I am careful whom I tell about my mother.
• I think there are a lot of good things about being raised in a family like mine.
• When my friends come to my house, I make sure to hide things that are too lesbian or gay.
• I tell people at school that my mom’s partner/girlfriend is a friend or a family member.
• I am sometimes self-conscious about being seen in public with my mother and worry about what people will think.
• At school, people know about my mother and it’s not a big deal.

Responses

Items used a 4 item ordinal response scale: Very much like me, Some-what like me, Not really like me, and Not at all like me.

Scoring

Participants were asked to indicate on a 4-point Likert-type scale whether each item on the scale was (a) very much like me; (b) somewhat like me; (c) not really like me; or (d) not at all like me. Items 3, 5, 9 reversed, item 7 excluded score is mean value of scores for all remaining items.

Citations

Johanna D. Vyncke, Danielle Julien, Emilie Jodoin & Emilie Jouvin (2011) Development and Initial Validation of the Perceived Heterosexism Scale and the Preoccupation with Disclosure of Parents’ Sexual Orientation Scale, Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 7:4,
313-331, DOI: 10.1080/1550428X.2011.592963

Team comments

When separated by participant gender, the measure did not demonstrate convergent validity for participants in the “girls” subgroup.