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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Direct racial discrimination is a significant factor in ethnoracial minority health and health disparities.
  • Existing instruments for measuring everyday racial discrimination have psychometric limitations.
  • Harmonizing the assessment of racial discrimination experiences is crucial for research and intervention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a new scale, the Multigroup Everyday Racial Discrimination Scale (MERDS).
  • To address psychometric limitations of existing measures and standardize the assessment of everyday racial discrimination.
  • To provide a reliable and valid tool for researchers studying racial discrimination and its health impacts.

Main Methods:

  • Development and validation of the Multigroup Everyday Racial Discrimination Scale (MERDS).
  • Inclusion of 1,355 college and graduate students of color.
  • Application of factor analyses for structural validity and item response theory (IRT) modeling for item difficulty and measurement error.

Main Results:

  • MERDS scores demonstrated reliability and supported construct unidimensionality.
  • The scale effectively distinguished individuals across a spectrum of everyday racial discrimination frequencies.
  • Evidence for the structural validity of MERDS scores was established through factor analyses.

Conclusions:

  • The MERDS is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing everyday racial discrimination.
  • The scale can be utilized to examine associations with racial identity and psychopathology symptoms.
  • MERDS offers a valuable tool for advancing research on ethnoracial minority health and disparities.