Open AccessPsychometric analysis of the Life Worries Scale for a new generation of sexual minority men: The P18 Cohort Study.
Author(s) -
Perry N. Halkitis,
Stephanie Cook,
Annie Ristuccia,
James Despotoulis,
Milton Levy,
Francesca C. Bates,
Farzana Kapadia
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
health psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.548
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1930-7810
pISSN - 0278-6133
DOI - 10.1037/hea0000537
Subject(s) - loneliness , psychology , clinical psychology , psychosocial , sexual minority , confirmatory factor analysis , structural equation modeling , population , minority stress , psycinfo , sexual orientation , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , medline , environmental health , political science , law , statistics , mathematics
Sexual minority men (SMM) in the United States continue to experience adverse health problems and psychosocial burdens. However, there is limited psychometric research seeking to quantify the life worries of this population. Informed by syndemic theory, the Life Worries Scale (LWS) was developed to measure the concerns of young SMM.