Salve Regina University.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2017 Oct;23(4):516-526. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000151. Epub 2017 Mar 23.
Recent studies have found that racial essentialism negatively affects intergroup behavior (e.g., willingness to relate across outgroups), however this line of inquiry has been limited by 1-dimensional measures of racial essentialism. This paper provides psychometric support for the Beliefs About Race Scale (BARS), a multidimensional measure of racial essentialism.
Participants included 492 adults recruited on a college campus and in the community. BARS items were developed by the researcher and were subjected to exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, and reliability and validity analyses. Hierarchical regressions examined the relation of BARS subscales to outgroup discomfort.
Analyses supported a 4-factor model of racial essentialism, with good internal and test-retest reliability and construct validity. Two BARS subscales predicted outgroup discomfort above and beyond the effects of previous measures of racial and psychological essentialism.
Greater specification of racial essentialism offered by the BARS subscales should aid researchers in furthering our understanding of how racial essentialism affects intergroup behavior and the role of education in challenging people's essentialist beliefs about race. (PsycINFO Database Record
最近的研究发现，种族本质主义会对群体间行为（例如，愿意与群体外的人建立关系）产生负面影响，但这方面的研究一直受到种族本质主义一维测量的限制。本文为种族信仰量表（BARS）提供了心理测量学支持，该量表是一种衡量种族本质主义的多维测量工具。
参与者包括在大学校园和社区招募的 492 名成年人。BARS 项目由研究人员开发，并进行了探索性和验证性因素分析以及可靠性和有效性分析。分层回归分析考察了 BARS 子量表与群体间不适的关系。
分析支持种族本质主义的 4 因素模型，具有良好的内部和重测信度和结构效度。两个 BARS 子量表在预测群体间不适方面的效果超过了先前种族和心理本质主义测量的效果。
BARS 子量表对种族本质主义的更具体描述，应该有助于研究人员进一步了解种族本质主义如何影响群体间行为，以及教育在挑战人们关于种族的本质主义信念方面的作用。
