A Preliminary Validation of Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure in Turkish Transgender Individuals

Abstract

Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) individuals experience stress due to discriminatory events in society. This stress causes them to become vulnerable to physical and mental health problems. However, there is no validated scale that can be used in the assessment of TGNC people in counseling in Turkey. Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure (GMSR) is a scale that evaluates the stress and resilience factors of TGNC individuals. The aim of this study is to investigate the validity of the Turkish version of GMSR (GMSR-Tr). Our study presents preliminary evidence of the validity of the GMSR-Tr.

Keywords:

• Gender dysphoria
• gender identity
• gender minority stress
• gender transition
• minority stress
• resilience
• resilience measure
• transgender
• transgender mental health
• validation

Acknowledgements

We would like to give special thanks to Rylan Jay Testa PhD, the developer of GMSR Measure, for allowing us to use the scale for the Turkish validation studies, and to Dr. Pinar Beard and Dr. Ezgi Ince-Guliyev, for their contributions to translation of the scale.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This study was performed in Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.