Promising Practices for School Organization of Mental Health Supports
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Ethnic Identity Scale assesses three distinct components of ethnic-racial identity: (a) exploration, or the degree to which individuals have explored their ethnicity; (b) resolution, or the degree to which they have resolved what their ethnic identity means to them; and (c) affirmation, or the affect (positive or negative) that they associate with their ethnic-group membership (Umaña-Taylor, Yazedjian, & Bámaca-Gómez, 2004). Exploration and resolution capture aspects of the developmental process of ethnic-racial identity, and affirmation captures ethnic-racial identity content. Examination of exploration and resolution as individual scales enables scholars to categorize individuals into ethnic-racial identity statuses of diffuse, foreclosed, moratorium, and achieved (for detailed instructions of this approach see Umaña-Taylor, Yazedjian, & Bámaca-Gómez, 2004).
Organization
Topic
Collection Category(ies)
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Racial Identity ; Self Awareness ; Ethnic Identity ; Exploration
Languages
English,
Spanish
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
9 items
Administration
Computer,
Paper
Access and Use
Price
$120.00
Contact
Adriana Umana-Taylor adriana_umana-taylor@gse.harvard.edu
Open Access
Yes
Setting
Anywhere
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Douglass, S., & Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (2015). A brief form of the Ethnic Identity Scale: Development and empirical validation. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 15(1), 48 - 65. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2014.989442
