scholarly journals Introducing a New Assessment Tool for Measuring Ethnic-Racial Identity: The Cross Ethnic-Racial Identity Scale–Adult (CERIS-A)

Assessment ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank C. Worrell ◽  
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton ◽  
Amanda Wang
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Rejection Sensitivity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
Racial Identity Attitudes ◽  
Identity Attitudes ◽  
The Cross

In this article, we examined the psychometric properties of scores on a new instrument, the Cross Ethnic-Racial Identity Scale-Adult (CERIS-A) for use across different ethnic and racial groups. The CERIS-A measures seven ethnic-racial identity attitudes—assimilation, miseducation, self-hatred, anti-dominant, ethnocentricity, multiculturalist inclusive, and ethnic-racial salience. Participants consisted of 803 adults aged 18 to 76, including African Americans (19.3%), Asian Americans (17.6%), European Americans (37.0%), and Latino/as (17.8%). Analyses indicated that CERIS-A scores were reliable, and configural, metric, and scalar invariance were supported for the seven factors across gender; however, Miseducation, Ethnic-Racial Salience, and Ethnocentricity scores achieved only metric invariance across ethnic-racial groups. Self-Hatred, Ethnic-Racial Salience, Anti-Dominant, and Ethnocentricity scores were significantly and meaningfully related to race-based rejection sensitivity scores, providing evidence of convergent validity. We concluded that the CERIS-A is a potentially useful instrument for examining ethnic-racial identity attitudes across multiple racial/ethnic subgroups in the United States.

Differentiation of Self and Racial Identity Attitudes

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
George V. Gushue ◽  
Lauren D. Fisher ◽  
Brenda X. Mejia ◽  
Min Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Differentiation Of Self ◽  
Racial Identity Attitudes ◽  
Identity Attitudes

Examining Racial Discrimination’s Association With Depressive Symptoms Through Metadehumanization Among African Americans: Does Racial Identity Matter?

2020 ◽  
pp. 009579842098366
Author(s):  
Yara Mekawi ◽  
Natalie N. Watson-Singleton
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Social Cognitive Theories

Though considerable empirical work has documented the ways in which African Americans are dehumanized by other racial groups, there is no research examining how perceiving dehumanization (i.e., metadehumanization) is associated with the mental health of African Americans. In this study, we examined the indirect effect of racial discrimination on depressive symptoms through metadehumanization and explored whether this indirect effect was contingent on racial identity (i.e., centrality, private regard). African American students completed measures in a university lab located in the Midwestern region of the United States ( N = 326; Mage = 19.7, 72.4% women). We found that the degree to which racial discrimination was indirectly associated with depressive symptoms through metadehumanization was contingent on racial identity dimensions. Specifically, the indirect effect of racial discrimination on depressive symptoms through metadehumanization was only significant for individuals who were relatively higher on centrality and private regard. This research suggests that the role of metadehumanization is stronger among African Americans who strongly identify with and have positive views of their racial group. We discuss these results in the context of social cognitive theories.

Measuring 5-year-old Mexican-heritage children's ethnic-racial identity attitudes, centrality, and knowledge

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 101290
Author(s):  
Chelsea Derlan Williams ◽  
Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor ◽  
Kimberly A. Updegraff ◽  
Laudan B. Jahromi
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Mexican Heritage ◽  
Racial Identity Attitudes ◽  
Identity Attitudes

Cycles of Psychological Nigrescence

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Parham
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Middle Adulthood ◽  
Late Adulthood ◽  
Cross Model ◽  
Black Person ◽  
Racial Identity Attitudes ◽  
Identity Attitudes ◽  
Life Cycle Process

This article is an attempt to expand the descriptive characteristics of the Cross model by discussing a theory of psychological Nigrescence that hypothesizes the changes in racial identity that a Black person can experience at various points in the life-cycle process. In this discussion, I will attempt to describe how various stages of racial identity are manifest at three periods of life: late adolescence/early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. I will conclude with a discussion of the implications for counseling Blacks who display varying degrees of racial identity attitudes.

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