Measuring sexual violence stigma in humanitarian contexts: assessment of scale psychometric properties and validity with female sexual violence survivors from Somalia and Syria

Table 5 Item response analysis of retained all stigma items in the sample from Jordan (n = 108)

All stigma items	Discrimination	Difficulty
All stigma items	Discrimination	≥ 1	≥ 2	= 3
Feelings of worthlessness, of having no value (i)	1.31	− 0.84	0.06	0.99
Feeling detached or withdrawn from others *(i)*	1.58	− 1.39	0.02	0.81
Feeling badly treated by family members (p)	0.95	− 0.70	0.88	1.92
Feeling badly treated by community members (p)	0.95	− 0.24	1.62	3.01
Feeling shame (i)	1.02	− 1.28	0.65	1.80
Blaming yourself for past events *(i)*	1.46	− 1.15	− 0.06	0.62
Feeling rejected by everybody *(p)*	2.10	− 0.23	1.26	1.98
Feeling stigma *(p)*	2.85	− 0.02	0.77	1.37
Wanting to avoid others or hide *(i)*	2.06	− 0.66	0.41	1.00
Feeling like your family gazes at you like they are blaming you *(p)*	2.04	− 0.07	0.87	1.51
Feeling like community members gaze at you like they are blaming you *(p)*	1.75	− 0.15	0.94	1.78
Been abandoned/thrown out of your home (e)	0.88	− 0.88
Rejected by your family because of trauma you experienced (e)	1.15	0.79
Rejected by your intimate partner because of trauma you experienced (e)	1.01	− 0.12
Forced to live away from husband because of violence you experienced (e)	0.87	1.72

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