Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto.
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland-College Park.
Psychol Trauma. 2023 Jul;15(5):791-799. doi: 10.1037/tra0001246. Epub 2022 May 5.
African Americans disproportionately experience homicide. However, validated measures designed to assess the traumatic impact of coping with murder for surviving family members and friends of homicide victims are absent from research. This article describes four studies that contributed to the development and preliminary validation of the Inventory of Stress and Coping for African American Survivors of Homicide Victims (ISCASHV). The ISCASHV is a measure that assesses multicomponents (e.g., stress, appraisals, stigma, coping) of the sociocultural and psychological processes in which African Americans cope with homicide.
Studies 2-4 provide strong support for the multicomponent 42-item scale consisting of five factors: cultural trauma, reactions to homicide, culture of homicide, racial appraisal, and coping. The ISCASHV demonstrates strong construct validity evidence and good internal consistency estimates. Each of the five measures demonstrated a high test-retest estimate for a 2-week period, suggesting the temporal stability of the factors.
Results suggest that the ISCASHV is a promising multicomponent measure that assesses the racial- and sociocultural-bound manifestation of homicide-related grief for African American survivors of homicide victims. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
非裔美国人不成比例地经历着凶杀事件。然而，目前还没有经过验证的、用于评估凶杀事件幸存者应对凶杀创伤的测量工具。本文描述了四项研究，这些研究为《非裔美国人凶杀事件幸存者压力与应对评估量表》（ISCASHV）的发展和初步验证做出了贡献。ISCASHV 是一种用于评估非裔美国人应对凶杀事件的社会文化和心理过程的多维度（如压力、评估、污名、应对）的测量工具。
研究 2-4 为包含五个因素的 42 项多维度量表提供了强有力的支持，这五个因素分别是：文化创伤、凶杀反应、凶杀文化、种族评估和应对。ISCASHV 表现出很强的结构有效性证据和良好的内部一致性估计。五个测量指标中的每一个在两周的时间内都表现出较高的重测信度，这表明了因素的时间稳定性。
结果表明，ISCASHV 是一种很有前途的多维度测量工具，用于评估非裔美国人凶杀事件幸存者因凶杀而产生的与种族和社会文化相关的悲痛。
