Racial/ethnic differences in responses to the everyday discrimination scale: A differential item functioning analysis

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 175, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 391-401

  Lewis, Tené T ^a   Yang, Frances M ^b,c   Jacobs, Elizabeth A ^d   Fitchett, George ^e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Hebrew Senior Life   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Asian Americans; bias (epidemiology); European continental ancestry group; Hispanic Americans; prejudice; psychometrics; questionnaires

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC CONFLICT; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RACIAL DISPARITY; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EVERYDAY DISCRIMINATION SCALE; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MINORITY GROUP; MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857613112     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwr287     Document Type: Article

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