Handling Race Experiences
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Abstract
Handling Race Experiences (CPPRG, 1997-2001) is a 30-item
measure which assesses youths' experiences with, and responses to,
situations that African Americans often face. Situations include
possible police harassment, discrimination in school (i.e., teacher's
low expectations, being accused of breaking a rule), and job discrimination.
It is administered in grade 11 to African American students only.
This measure was developed for this project based on the Race Coping
Measure (Lesane, C., 2003).
Six racially hostile situations were presented. The responses for
each situation were coded as '1' for "yes" and '0' for
"no". For each situation, four coping responses were offered.
Students were asked to rate how often they would use the coping
response in response to a racially hostile situation. The responses
were coded on a 5-point scale of '0' (never), '1' (unlikely to feel
this), '2' (maybe would feel this), '3' (probably would feel this),
and '4' (would definitely feel this).
One subscale, Prevalence of Conversations, consists of the sum
across scenarios of the first question in each case regarding prevalence
of conversations about racially hostile situations. This scale ranges
from '0' to '6', with a high score indicating that a respondent
had talked with a parent or family member about several or all of
the situations presented in the measure.
Children who reported talking to their parents about one of the
racial situations were then asked how often their parents suggested
using each of four types of coping mechanisms (Submission, Active
Avoidance, Contextualized Reality-Based Agentic, and Self-Assertion).
Four additional subscales were then created to measure the frequency
with which parents suggested each type of coping style across the
scenarios.
This measure should only be used with African American youth. All
of the scales were normally distributed for both the normative and
the control samples.
Keywords: African-American Stereotypes, Racial Bias, Discrimination,
Coping, Harassment.
Administration History
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3 September 2004
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