The Ethnic Identity Scale: Affirmation, really? | Zendy

Alan Meca | Zendy; Melinda GonzalesBacken | Zendy; Julie C. Rodil | Zendy; Isis Cowan | Zendy; Sangeeta Sharma | Zendy; Taylor Webb | Zendy; Timothy Hayes | Zendy

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The Ethnic Identity Scale: Affirmation, really?

Author(s) -

Alan Meca,

Melinda GonzalesBacken,

Julie C. Rodil,

Isis Cowan,

Sangeeta Sharma,

Taylor Webb,

Timothy Hayes

Publication year - 2021

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) - ethnic group , psychology , scale (ratio) , social psychology , identity (music) , sociology , anthropology , physics , quantum mechanics , acoustics

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.

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