Self-Stigma Of Seeking Help (SSOSH)
SSOSH is free for use for research purposes. To download the original or translated versions of the scale please click on the links below:
Self-Stigma of Seeking Help (SSOSH) scale (by Vogel, Wade, & Haake, 2006)
SSOSH Albanian Version (translated by Esheref Haxhiu)
SSOSH Arabic Version (translated by Fatima Rashed Al-Darmaki)
SSOSH Chinese Versions (translated by Hsin-Ya Liao and Winnie W. Mak)
SSOSH French Version (translated by Pascale Aribaud)
SSOSH German Version (translated by Agata Drabek)
SSOSH Greek Version I (translated by Elli Kouvaraki)
SSOSH Greek Version II (translated by Sotiropoulou Ifigeneia)
SSOSH Hindi Version (translated by Sargam, Ph.D. Scholar of Clinical Psychology, Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda (Punjab), 2025)
SSOSH Hungarian Version (translated by Erika Batki)
SSOSH Italian Version (translated by Aimone Pignattelli)
SSOSH Japanese Version (translated by Moe Ina)
SSOSH Lithuanian Version (translated by Dalia Nasvytiene)
SSOSH Malaysian Version (translated by Nurhafizah Yaacob)
SSOSH Mongolian Version (translated by Khatanbaatar Enkhbold)
SSOSH Persian Version (translated by Fatemeh Hedayati, see published paper)
SSOSH Punjabi Version (translated by Sargam, Ph.D. Scholar of Clinical Psychology, Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda (Punjab), 2025)
SSOSH Portuguese Version (translated by Marta Gonçalves)
SSOSH Romanian Version (translated by Alina Zlati)
SSOSH Spanish Version I (translated by Francisco Collazos Sanchez)
SSOSH Spanish Version II (translated by Larrahondo, Valenciab, Martínez-Villalbac, Zapata Ospinac & Aguirre-Acevedo)
SSOSH Swedish Version (translated by Frida Lindh, Andreas Lundin, & Kyriaki Kosidou)
SSOSH Turkish Version (translated by Nursel Topkaya)
SSOSH Urdu Version (translated by Asma Rafique & Ammara Waheed)
Other Versions of the Scale
Self-Stigma of Academic Help-Seeking (adapted by Greta Winograd)
Self-Stigma of Group Counseling (adapted by Zipora Schechtman)
Military Stigma Scale (by Skopp, Bush, Vogel, Wade, Sirotin, McCann, & Metzger-Abamukong)
Military Stigma Scale Romanian Version (by Maria Magdalena Macarenco)
Turkish Reanalysis of Original Items (translated & analyzed by Sevgi Sezer and Fatih Kezer)
Portuguese Version adapted for children (translated and adapted by Marta Gonçalves)
Self-Stigma of Seeking Help in Sexual Minorities Chinese Version
Related Help-Seeking Scales
Disclosure Expectations Scale (DES) English Version (Vogel & Wester, 2003)
Interdependent Stigma of Seeking Help (ISSH; Vogel et al., 2024 includes English, Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese, Arabic, German version)
Perception of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help (PSOSH) English Version (Vogel, Wade, & Ascheman, 2009)
PSOSH Chinese Version (translated by Winnie W. Mak)
PSOSH Swedish Version (translated by Frida Lindh, Andreas Lundin, & Kyriaki Kosidou)
PSOSH Urdu Version (translated by Asma Rafique & Ammara Waheed)