Social Maltreatment and Symptomatology: Validating the Social Discrimination and Maltreatment Scale—Short Form in a Diverse Online Sample

There are few psychometrically valid measures of exposure to social maltreatment that simultaneously assess sexism, racism, and anti-LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other nonheteronormative) behavior, despite the commonness of these phenomena. The Social Discrimination and Ma...

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Authors: Briere, John (Author) ; Runtz, Marsha (Author) ; Villenueve, Elise (Author) ; Godbout, Natacha (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2025
In: Journal of interpersonal violence
Year: 2025, Volume: 40, Issue: 21/22, Pages: 5223-5241
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