Benner Aprile D, Chen Shanting, Fernandez Celeste C, Hayward Mark D
Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Sociol Methods Res. 2024 May;53(2):804-838. doi: 10.1177/00491241211067512. Epub 2022 Feb 7.
Discrimination is associated with numerous psychological health outcomes over the life course. The nine-item Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS) is one of the most widely used measures of discrimination; however, this nine-item measure may not be feasible in large-scale population health surveys where a shortened discrimination measure would be advantageous. The current study examined the construct validity of a combined two-item discrimination measure adapted from the EDS by Add Health ( = 14,839) as compared to the full nine-item EDS and a two-item EDS scale (parallel to the adapted combined measure) used in the National Survey of American Life (NSAL; = 1,111) and National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS) studies ( = 1,055). Results identified convergence among the EDS scales, with high item-total correlations, convergent validity, and criterion validity for psychological outcomes, thus providing evidence for the construct validity of the two-item combined scale. Taken together, the findings provide support for using this reduced scale in studies where the full EDS scale is not available.
歧视在人的一生中与众多心理健康结果相关。九项日常歧视量表（EDS）是使用最广泛的歧视测量工具之一；然而，在大规模人群健康调查中，这种九项测量方法可能不可行，而缩短的歧视测量方法会更具优势。本研究检验了由“增加健康”项目（样本量n = 14839）改编自EDS的两项合并歧视测量方法的结构效度，并将其与完整的九项EDS以及在美国生活全国调查（NSAL；样本量n = 1111）和美国拉丁裔与亚裔美国人研究（NLAAS；样本量n = 1055）中使用的两项EDS量表（与改编后的合并测量方法平行）进行比较。结果确定了EDS各量表之间的趋同性，在心理结果方面具有较高的项目-总分相关性、收敛效度和效标效度，从而为两项合并量表的结构效度提供了证据。总体而言，研究结果支持在无法使用完整EDS量表的研究中使用这种简化量表。
