Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
Department of Psychology, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, USA.
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2022 Sep 15;27(4):408-422. doi: 10.1093/deafed/enac016.
Deaf adults may experience acculturative stress as they navigate within and between the Hearing and Deaf communities. However, no measure has been developed to assess levels of deaf acculturative stress. This study aimed to develop the Multidimensional Inventory of Deaf Acculturative Stress (MIDAS). The MIDAS was developed through a sequential and iterative scale development procedure and then tested on a sample of 104 deaf adults across the United States (age range = 18-79; 74% female). Principal component analyses were run for item refinement and selection. The final analyses yielded four factors for Stress from the Hearing Community, three factors for Stress from the Deaf Community, and two factors for Intersectionality. Construct validity was demonstrated through correlations in the expected directions with measures of Hearing and Deaf acculturation identity and ethnic/racial identity. The utility of the MIDAS is discussed with regard to future research.
聋人成年人在聋人和听力人群中穿行时可能会经历文化适应压力。但是，还没有制定出评估聋人文化适应压力水平的方法。本研究旨在开发多维聋人文化适应压力量表（MIDAS）。MIDAS 通过顺序和迭代的量表开发程序开发，然后在美国的 104 名聋人成年人中进行了测试（年龄范围为 18-79 岁；74%为女性）。进行了主成分分析以进行项目细化和选择。最终分析得出了来自听力社区的压力的四个因素，来自聋人社区的压力的三个因素，以及两个交叉因素。通过与听力和聋人文化认同以及族裔/种族认同的测量结果的预期方向的相关性，证明了结构效度。讨论了 MIDAS 的实用性，以便进行未来的研究。
