Race/Ethnicity and Measurement Equivalence of the Everyday Discrimination Scale
- Authors
- Kim, Giyeon; Sellbom, Martin; Ford, Katy-Lauren
- Issue Date
- Sep-2014
- Publisher
- AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
- Keywords
- perceived discrimination; measurement equivalence; race/ethnicity; Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS); culture
- Citation
- PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, v.26, no.3, pp 892 - 900
- Pages
- 9
- Journal Title
- PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
- Volume
- 26
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 892
- End Page
- 900
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/26619
- DOI
- 10.1037/a0036431
- ISSN
- 1040-3590
1939-134X
- Abstract
- 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.
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