Initial Validation of Relative Deprivation Scale With Korean University Students

Measures of stereotypes, affect, perceived threat and relative deprivation were used to predict attitudes toward three minority groups in Australia: Aboriginals, Asians and Arabs. Participants included 139 Anglo-Saxon volunteer university students (60 male, 79 female). The findings highlighted the fact that attitudes were significantly positive towards Aboriginals compared with attitudes towards Asians and Arabs. However, Asian stereotypes were distinctively positive compared to the two other target groups. Multiple regression analyses indicated that affective measures were often better predictors of attitudes towards minority groups. Overall, the results indicated the importance of emotional stakes as crucial components of racial attitudes in Australia. The implications of these findings suggest that attitude change programs, which have traditionally been based on simply changing cognitive aspects of attitudes (e.g., knowledge structures, facts about racial groups) should also take into consideration the roles of affective features of attitudes (e.g., anxiety, distrust, frustration evoked by racial groups).

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Development and Validation of the '˜Relative Deprivation Scale for Financial Possibilities'

JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN HUMANITIES ◽

10.24297/jah.v2i2.6977 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 110-116

Author(s):

Fatih Ozdemir

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Relative Deprivation ◽

Deprivation Level ◽

Item Pool ◽

Demographic Information ◽

Response Set ◽

Deprivation Model ◽

Development And Validation ◽

Type Response ◽

Item Scale

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a new scale which measures relative deprivation level of university students toward financial possibilities. According to egoistical relative deprivation model (Crosby, 1976), five preconditions must be met to feel deprived. Depending on these preconditions, 71 items were written. Item pool was conducted 310 (Nfemale = 208; Nmale = 102) university students who study in different universities of Turkey (Mage = 22.84; SD = 2.44). Participants rated items on a 6 point Likert-type response set. Findings indicated a five-dimensional, 22-item scale which is called Relative Deprivation Scale for Financial Possibilities (?=.77); factors were (1) adverse effects of relative deprivation (?=.88), (2) feasibility of obtaining better financial possibilities (?=.78), (3) responsibility for failure to possess better financial possibilities (?=.84), (4) feeling to deserve better financial possibilities (?=.71) and (5) wanting toward better financial possibilities (?=.75). Also, these dimensions were tested with demographic information of participants.

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Why are there so many Engineers among Islamic Radicals?

European Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1017/s0003975609990129 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 201-230 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Diego Gambetta ◽

Steffen Hertog

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Engineering Education ◽

Relative Deprivation ◽

Islamic World ◽

Islamic Countries ◽

Two Factors

AbstractThis article demonstrates that among violent Islamists engineers with a degree, individuals with an engineering education are three to four times more frequent than we would expect given the share of engineers among university students in Islamic countries. We then test a number of hypotheses to account for this phenomenon. We argue that a combination of two factors – engineers’ relative deprivation in the Islamic world and mindset – is the most plausible explanation.

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Self-perceived employability: Construction and initial validation of a scale for university students

Journal of Vocational Behavior ◽

10.1016/j.jvb.2007.12.001 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 73 (1) ◽

pp. 1-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 150

Author(s):

Andrew Rothwell ◽

Ian Herbert ◽

Frances Rothwell

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Initial Validation ◽

Perceived Employability

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Personal Relative Deprivation and Mental Health Among University Students: Cross‐sectional and Longitudinal Evidence

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy ◽

10.1111/asap.12201 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 287-314

Author(s):

Heather J. Smith ◽

Desiree A. Ryan ◽

Alexandria Jaurique ◽

Elise Duffau

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

University Students ◽

Relative Deprivation ◽

Cross Sectional

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Personal Relative Deprivation and Mental Health Among University Students: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Evidence

10.31219/osf.io/wrp7x ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Heather J. Smith ◽

Desiree Ryan ◽

Alexandria Jaurique ◽

Elise Duffau

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

University Students ◽

Emerging Adults ◽

Relative Deprivation ◽

Family Income ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Major Life ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Impact

Colleges and universities are a unique context in which students encounter similar aged peers from a wide range of economic backgrounds. As emerging adults coping with major life transitions, students may be especially sensitive to upward contrasts with other students who have advantages that they feel they deserve (personal relative deprivation or PRD). We surveyed a population of university students when they were second- and third-year students (N = 309), and two years later, when they were fourth- and fifth-year students (N = 400). Increased PRD predicted increased anxiety and depression – even after accounting for students’ access to social support, the degree to which they identified with the university, and their gender, family income, ethnic background and whether the student was a first-generation college student. For a third separate sample of students who completed both surveys (N = 168), PRD predicted students’ mental health two years later even after accounting for their earlier anxiety and depression. In all three samples, PRD mediated the relationship between self-reported family income and mental health. These data indicate that universities and colleges should consider a broad range of interventions and policies that can mitigate the impact of upward social contrasts.

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The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)

Swiss Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1024/1421-0185/a000093 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 72 (1) ◽

pp. 5-11 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Elise S. Dan-Glauser ◽

Klaus R. Scherer

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Well Being ◽

French Translation ◽

French Version ◽

Inappropriate Behaviors ◽

Initial Validation ◽

Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽

Instrument Measuring ◽

Highly Correlated ◽

Psychopathological Disorders

Successful emotion regulation is a key aspect of efficient social functioning and personal well-being. Difficulties in emotion regulation lead to relationship impairments and are presumed to be involved in the onset and maintenance of some psychopathological disorders as well as inappropriate behaviors. Gratz and Roemer (2004 ) developed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), a comprehensive instrument measuring emotion regulation problems that encompasses several dimensions on which difficulties can occur. The aim of the present work was to develop a French translation of this scale and to provide an initial validation of this instrument. The French version was created using translation and backtranslation procedures and was tested on 455 healthy students. Congruence between the original and the translated scales was .98 (Tucker’s phi) and internal consistency of the translation reached .92 (Cronbach’s α). Moreover, test-retest scores were highly correlated. Altogether, the initial validation of the French version of the DERS (DERS-F) offers satisfactory results and permits the use of this instrument to map difficulties in emotion regulation in both clinical and research contexts.

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