Race/Ethnicity and Measurement Equivalence of the Everyday Discrimination Scale
Race/Ethnicity and Measurement Equivalence of the Everyday Discrimination Scale
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DOI：
10.1037/a0036431
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发表时间：
2014-09-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Ford, Katy-Lauren
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作者：
Kim, Giyeon;Sellbom, Martin;Ford, Katy-Lauren
本研究考察了种族/民族对日常歧视量表测量等效性的影响（EDS; Williams, Yu, Jackson, & Anderson, 1997）。从精神病学合作流行病学调查（CPES; Alegria, Jackson, Kessler, & Takeuchi, 2008）中，从四个种族/民族群体中选择18岁及以上的成年人进行分析：884名非西班牙裔白人，4950名黑人，2733名西班牙裔/拉丁裔和2089名亚洲人。进行多组验证性因子分析。在调整了年龄和性别后，EDS的基本结构在四个种族/民族群体中是不变的，项目7（“人们表现得好像他们比你好”）与西班牙裔/拉丁裔和亚洲群体相对于非西班牙裔白人和黑人群体的低截距相关。在潜在因素差异方面，黑人在潜在构念上的得分高于其他种族/民族，而亚洲人在潜在构念上的得分低于白人和西班牙裔/拉丁裔。研究结果表明，尽管EDS总体上对不同种族/民族群体的感知歧视的基本结构进行了评估，但当项目7在西班牙裔/拉丁裔或亚洲人中使用时，需要谨慎。在文化和方法背景下讨论影响。
The present study examines the effect of race/ethnicity on measurement equivalence of the Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS; Williams, Yu, Jackson, & Anderson, 1997). Drawn from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES; Alegria, Jackson, Kessler, & Takeuchi, 2008), adults aged 18 and older from four racial/ethnic groups were selected for analyses: 884 non-Hispanic Whites, 4,950 Blacks, 2,733 Hispanics/Latinos, and 2,089 Asians. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses were conducted. After adjusting for age and gender, the underlying construct of the EDS was invariant across four racial/ethnic groups, with Item 7 ("People act as if they're better than you are") associated with lower intercepts for the Hispanic/Latino and Asian groups relative to the non-Hispanic White and Black groups. In terms of latent factor differences, Blacks tended to score higher on the latent construct compared to other racial/ethnic groups, whereas Asians tended to score lower on the latent construct compared to Whites and Hispanics/Latinos. Findings suggest that although the EDS in general assesses the underlying construct of perceived discrimination equivalently across diverse racial/ethnic groups, caution is needed when Item 7 is used among Hispanics/Latinos or Asians. Implications are discussed in cultural and methodological contexts.