Psychometrics of racism measures the
effects of racism on the psychological well-being of people of all races. At present, there are few instruments that attempt to capture the experience of racism in all of its complexity.
Self-reported inventories
The Schedule of Racist Events (SRE) is questionnaire for assessing frequency of racial discrimination in lives of
African American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...
s created in 1998 by
Hope Landrine and Elizabeth A. Klonoff. SRE is an 18-item self-report inventory, assesses frequency of specific
racist
Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one Race (human categorization), race or ethnicity over another. It may also me ...
events in past year and in one's entire life, and measures to what extent this
discrimination
Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, class, religion, or sex ...
was stressful.
Other
psychometric tools for assessing the impacts of racism include:
* The Racism Reaction Scale (RRS)
* Perceived Racism Scale (PRS)
* Index of Race-Related Stress (IRRS)
* Racism and Life Experience Scale-Brief Version (RaLES-B)
* Telephone-Administered Perceived Racism Scale (TPRS)
Physiological metrics
In a summary of recent research
Jules P. Harrell, Sadiki Hall, and James Taliaferro describe how a growing body of research has explored the impact of encounters with racism or discrimination on physiological activity. Several of the studies suggest that
higher blood pressure levels are associated with the tendency not to recall or report occurrences identified as racist and discriminatory. In other words, failing to recognize instances of racism is directly impacted by the blood pressure of the person experiencing the racist event. Investigators have reported that physiological arousal is associated with laboratory analogues of ethnic discrimination and mistreatment.
See also
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Race and health
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Stereotype threat
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White guilt
References
racism
Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one Race (human categorization), race or ethnicity over another. It may also me ...
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