Editorial

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHRH-03-2023-216
• Published date: 15 February 2023
• Date: 15 February 2023
• Pages: 1-3
• Subject Matter: Health & social care,Vulnerable groups,Inequalities & diverse/minority groups,Sociology,Race & ethnic studies,Minorities,Multiculturalism,Racial identity,Work,economy & organizations
• Author: Bushra Naeem,Muhammad Aqeel,Aneela Maqsood,Ishrat Yousaf,Saima Ehsan,Theo Gavrielides

Editorial

Theo Gavrielides

Welcome to the first issueof 2023! I hope that the new year started positivelyand that

you all look forward to what we have in stockfor you. The journal continues to grow

with an impressive and steadyincrease of submissions from around the world. Our

readership has also expanded reaching diverse audiences including researchers, policy

makers and practitioners,but also members of the public.

I first took the role of Editor-in-Chiefin February 2014 when the journal was still called Ethnicity

and Inequalities in Health and Social Care. Next year, it will be 10 years since I have been

editing it. I am proud of the work that has been achieved and above all honoured and

humbled by the trust that manyauthors have put into the journal and the publisher. I am well

aware how much work goes into publishing in peer-reviewed journals, and thus I hope that

our processes make the publicationexperience smooth and prompt. Above all, I want to say

a huge thank you to the Editorial Board and all the reviewers who have been supportingme

generously withtheir expertise and time.

This issue, although not a special one, has several papers focusing on psychometric

development and analysis. The first paper, Psychometric development and validation of

victim gaslighting questionnaire across a female sample from Pakistan, looks at the

development of an instrument that can effectively measure gaslighting in victims. This

instrument has its applicability in several domains the most important being in the criminal

justice system, as it can help in determining the severity of gaslighting in victims. Likewise,

it can be used in clinical settings for psychologists to identify possible cases of

gaslighting. Moreover, researchers can also benefit from the instrument because it can

enable them to explore gaslighting with other possible variables that can help them

explore the concept of gaslighting even further. A qualitative sample of eight women who

were victims of domestic abuse was taken for a focus group. Subsequently, a sample of 20

women for the pilot study and a sample of 150 women for the main study was taken with

age range 18–40. As a result, Velicer’s MAP method and Maximum Likelihood FA

suggested two-factor structures including peer disagreement and loss of self-trust. All in

all, this paper helps to establish a scale in an effort to construct an instrument that can be

used worldwide.

The second paper, Psychometric development and validation of personal growth initiative

(PGI) scale across male andfemale in early adulthood population in Pakistan: a comparative

study, aims to assess how gender influences the psychometric properties of the PGI scale.

The paper also aims to evaluate the relationship of PGI with mental well-being, and career

orientation. To develop a scale, first, focus group discussions were conducted with six

groups. A sample of 50 men and 50women were taken for the pilot study and 449 (156 men

and 293 women) for the main study with ages ranging from 18 to 35years. The study

consisted of focus groupdiscussions followed by thematic analysis and item pool generation

which further followed the main study analysis. The findings suggest the instrument to be

psychometrically valid and reliable and can be helpful in many domains such as industrial

organizations,career counselling and clinical and research settings. Also,the instrument can

be beneficial for future studies in identifying other possible relationships with multiple

variables.

Moving onto Psychometricproperties of the revised Urdu version dyadic adjustmentscale for

evaluating marital relationship quality between madrassa and Non-Madrassa married

Theo Gavrielides is based

at Restorative Justice for All

(RJ4All) International

Institute, London, UK.

DOI 10.1108/IJHRH-03-2023-216 VOL. 16 NO. 1 2023, pp. 1-3, ©Emerald Publishing Limited, ISSN 2056-4902 jINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN HEALTHCARE jPAGE 1