Open AccessThe Ethnic Identity Scale: Affirmation, really?
Author(s) -
Alan Meca,
Melinda A. GonzalesBacken,
Julie C. Rodil,
Isis Cowan,
Sangeeta Sharma,
Taylor Webb,
Timothy Hayes
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
cultural diversity and ethnic minority psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.049
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1939-0106
pISSN - 1099-9809
DOI - 10.1037/cdp0000485
Subject(s) - psychology , ethnic group , psycinfo , confirmatory factor analysis , feeling , social psychology , psychosocial , construct validity , affect (linguistics) , scale (ratio) , psychometrics , construct (python library) , developmental psychology , structural equation modeling , statistics , mathematics , medline , communication , psychiatry , political science , computer science , law , programming language , physics , quantum mechanics , sociology , anthropology
The Ethnic Identity Scale (EIS) was developed to distinguish between process and content components of ethnic-racial identity (ERI). However, the affirmation subscale is composed entirely of negatively worded items, measuring negative feelings about one's ethnic-racial group, rather than positive feelings as widely conceptualized. Addressing this gap, the present study examined the psychometric validity of a revised EIS with positively and negatively worded items to determine whether affirmation is best represented as a unidimensional construct, a bidimensional construct, or a combination of the two.