Meyer Ilan H
Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City, NY 10032, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2003 Feb;93(2):262-5. doi: 10.2105/ajph.93.2.262.
In the field of social sciences, there has been a renewed interest in studying prejudice and discrimination as stressors and assessing their impact on various health outcomes. This raises a need for theoretically based and psychometrically sound measures of prejudice. As researchers approach this task, there are several conceptual issues that need to be addressed. The author describes 3 such issues related to (1) individual versus structural measures of the impact of prejudice, (2) objective versus subjective assessments of stress, and (3) measures of major events versus everyday discrimination. How researchers approach the problem of measurement depends on the specific study aims, but they must consider these conceptual issues and understand the advantages and limitations of various approaches to the study of prejudice as stress.
在社会科学领域，人们对将偏见和歧视作为压力源进行研究并评估其对各种健康结果的影响重新产生了兴趣。这就需要有基于理论且心理测量上可靠的偏见测量方法。当研究人员着手这项任务时，有几个概念性问题需要解决。作者描述了其中3个问题，分别涉及：（1）偏见影响的个体层面与结构层面的测量；（2）压力的客观评估与主观评估；（3）重大事件的测量与日常歧视的测量。研究人员如何处理测量问题取决于具体的研究目标，但他们必须考虑这些概念性问题，并了解研究偏见作为压力源的各种方法的优缺点。
