Table II.

Descriptive Statistics, Internal Consistency Reliability, and Item Discrimination for Internalized Stigma Subscales and Overall Scale

Domain / Subscale	No. of Items	Mean Scorea	Median Scorea	SD	Skewness of Scaleb	% Scoring Minimum	% Scoring Maximum	Internal Consistencyc	Item Discriminationd
Stereotypes	12	48	45	21	0.26	0.5	2	0.91	100
Disclosure concerns	5	32	30	27	0.76	16	3	0.85	80
Social Relationships	7	29	21	24	0.82	13	1	0.89	72
Self- acceptance	4	54	56	25	−0.03	2	7	0.66	75
Overall scale	28	41	40	19	0.61	0	1	0.93	Not applicable

^aPossible range 0–100, with higher scores indicative of greater perceived and experienced stigma

^bUnbounded

^cCronbach’s coefficient α

^dPercentage of time that items in the scale correlated at least two standard errors higher with the hypothesized scale compared with other scales, correcting for item overlap with scale score