A Brief Form of the Ethnic Identity Scale: Development and Empirical Validation
A Brief Form of the Ethnic Identity Scale: Development and Empirical Validation
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DOI：
10.1080/15283488.2014.989442
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Umana-Taylor, Adriana J.
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作者：
Douglass, Sara;Umana-Taylor, Adriana J.
理论和研究长期以来表明，族裔身份是一个复杂且多方面的结构。然而，缺乏简短、易于管理的措施来充分捕捉这种多维性。两项研究旨在开发种族认同量表 (EIS) 的缩写版本，并探索其在美国的心理测量特性。在研究 1 中，对拉丁裔青少年样本 (n = 323) 使用项目缩减技术，得出了包含 9 项目的 EIS 简短版本 (EIS-B)，包括探索、解决和肯定等子量表；此外，纵向分析为分量表的结构有效性提供了初步支持。在研究 2 中，在不同种族的大学生样本 (n = 9,492) 中检查了 EIS-B 的因子结构，结果为 EIS-B 跨种族的测量不变性提供了支持。总之，两项研究的结果为 EIS-B 作为族裔种族身份多维结构的简要衡量指标的有效性和可靠性提供了初步证据，并表明 EIS-B 以与量表原始版本类似的方式评估族裔种族身份。
Theory and research have long indicated that ethnic-racial identity is a complex and multifaceted construct. However, there is a paucity of brief, easily administered measures that adequately capture this multidimensionality. Two studies were conducted to develop an abbreviated version of the Ethnic Identity Scale (EIS) and to explore its psychometric properties in the United States. In Study 1, the use of item-reduction techniques with a sample of adolescent Latinos (n = 323) resulted in a 9-item brief version of the EIS (EIS-B), including subscales of Exploration, Resolution, and Affirmation; furthermore, longitudinal analyses provided initial support for the construct validity of the subscales. In Study 2, the factor structure of the EIS-B was examined among an ethnically diverse sample of college students (n = 9,492), and findings provided support for strong measurement invariance across ethnic groups for the EIS-B. Together, findings from both studies provided preliminary evidence for the validity and reliability of the EIS-B as a brief measure of the multidimensional construct of ethnic-racial identity, and indicated that the EIS-B assessed ethnic-racial identity in a comparable manner to the original version of the scale.