Title:
Development of the White Normativity Measurement Scale: item generation and initial validation
Author:
Esther Grace Weiner
Thesis Advisor:
Heather Z. Lyons
Committee Member:
Jason M. Prenoveau
Committee Member:
Cara H. Jacobson
Committee Member:
Frank D. Golom
Committee Member:
Stephen E. Fowl
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola Univeristy Maryland
Date Created:
2022
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
White normativity is defined in this study as the conscious or unconscious schema that Whiteness is the center of racial organization, in that Whiteness is the standard of humanness that individuals of all other races are measured against. This construct impacts the field of psychology and beyond but has no means of being empirically measured to date. To address this concern, the current study conducted the first steps of the scale development process. This included generating an initial pool of 42 items, within subscales of cognition, affect, and behavior, based on the existing literature. Four racially caucused focus groups (two groups for students of color and two groups for White students; n=37) were run and items were revised based on qualitative data from coded transcripts. A racially caucused pre-test survey (n=50) was then conducted to improve grammatical clarity of the items. Finally, a panel of five experts in psychology, racial and ethnic studies, and scale development rated the items and met to discuss feedback to strengthen construct validity of items. After the initial item generation, seven items were added, 19 were removed, and two were readded, resulting in a final list of 32 items. Additionally, overall changes were made to the scale structure (i.e., removing subscales) and target audience (altered from respondents of any racial background to exclusively White respondents). Future considerations for the continuation of scale development are discussed.
Subject:
Electronic dissertations
Subject:
Academic theses
Degree:
Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Level:
Doctor
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
WeinerEG-22
