2.3.3. Prejudice Events

The Experiences of Discrimination Scale (EDS) [49,50] is an eight-item measure for assessing four prejudice events: verbal abuse (e.g., "I heard jokes or unpleasant or derogatory comments about my sexual orientation"), unequal treatment (e.g., "Because of my sexual orientation I have not been able to ge<sup>t</sup> something important to me, for example a grant, a job"), avoidance (e.g., "It happened to me that some people have avoided me because of my sexual orientation"), and victimization (e.g., "I was physically assaulted because of my sexual orientation"). The response options ranged from "never" to "often" on a five-point Likert scale. Higher scores indicate more prejudice events. The internal consistency reliability was α = 0.84.
