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)
Albanian Version (translated by Esheref Haxhiu)
Arabic Version (translated by Fatima Rashed Al-Darmaki)
Chinese Versions (translated by Hsin-Ya Liao and Winnie W. Mak)
French Version (translated by Pascale Aribaud)
German Version (translated by Agata Drabek)
Greek Version I (translated by Elli Kouvaraki)
Greek Version II (translated by Sotiropoulou Ifigeneia)
Hindi Version (translated by Sargam, Ph.D. Scholar of Clinical Psychology, Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda (Punjab), 2025)
Hungarian Version (translated by Erika Batki)
Italian Version (translated by Aimone Pignattelli)
Japanese Version (translated by Moe Ina)
Lithuanian Version (translated by Dalia Nasvytiene)
Malaysian Version (translated by Nurhafizah Yaacob)
Mongolian Version (translated by Khatanbaatar Enkhbold)
Persian Version (translated by Fatemeh Hedayati, see published paper)
Punjabi Version (translated by Sargam, Ph.D. Scholar of Clinical Psychology, Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda (Punjab), 2025)
Portuguese Version (translated by Marta Gonçalves)
Romanian Version (translated by Alina Zlati)
Spanish Version I (translated by Francisco Collazos Sanchez)
Spanish Version II (translated by Larrahondo, Valenciab, Martínez-Villalbac, Zapata Ospinac & Aguirre-Acevedo)
Swedish Version (translated by Frida Lindh, Andreas Lundin, & Kyriaki Kosidou)
Turkish Version (translated by Nursel Topkaya)
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)
PSOSH Serbian Version