International Journal of Social Science Research eISSN: 2710-6276 | Vol. 2, No. 1, 35-47, 2020 http://myjms.moe.gov.my/index.php/ijssr 35 Copyright © 2020 ACADEMIA INDUSTRY NETWORKS. All rights reserved. International Journal of Social Science Research eISSN: 2710-6276 [Vol. 2 No. 1, March 2020] http://myjms.moe.gov.my/index.php/ijssr PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE MALAY VERSION OF PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION SCALE AMONG GAY MEN AND LESBIANS IN MALAYSIA Syarifah Mastura Syed Abu Bakar 1 , Mohd Firdaus Ninam Shah 2* and Azlin Alwi 3 1 2 Faculty of Business, Communication and Law, INTI International University, Nilai, MALAYSIA 3 Kuliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA *Corresponding author: mohdfirdaus.ninam@newinti.edu.my Article Information: Article history: Received date : 30 November 2019 Revised date : 10 December 2019 Accepted date : 26 February 2020 Published date : 12 March 2020 To cite this document: Syed Abu Bakar, S., Ninam Shah, M., & Alwi, A. (2020). PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE MALAY VERSION OF PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION SCALE AMONG GAY MEN AND LESBIANS IN MALAYSIA. International Journal Of Social Science Research, 2(1), 35-47. Abstract: Gay men and lesbians are subjected to discrimination that happen in their daily activities, including in workplaces. As the results, gay and lesbian were reported experience higher levels of anxiety and depression, as well as lower levels of life satisfaction. This is not much different for gay men and lesbians in Malaysia as reported in several qualitative studies. While there were several ways used to measure discrimination quantitatively among these populations in the past studies, however, there is no a valid and reliable scale available in Malay language for assessing the same purpose. With that in mind, the present study aims to validate and document the psychometric properties of Malay translated Perceived Discrimination Scale (Noh & Kaspar, 2003) among sample of Malaysian gay men and lesbians. This study commenced with Forward-Backward translations and was followed by content and face validities. Subsequently, a cross-sectional study was conducted among Malaysian gay men and lesbians (n=79) for the purpose of construct and factorial validations. Later, construct and factorial validity was performed via Exploratory Factor Analysis using Principal Component Analysis with Varimax rotation. Finally, reliability testing was performed to determine the internal consistency of the items which was achieved using Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient method (α). The factor loading consisted of two factors with a total variance of 72.42%. The internal consistency value of the