Multicultural mastery scale for youth: Multidimensional assessment of culturally mediated coping strategies

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 313-327

  Fok, Carlotta Ching Ting ^a   Allen, James ^a   Henry, David ^b   Mohatt, Gerald V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indian and Alaska Native; Communal mastery; Coping; mastery; measures; Psychometrics; Self efficacy; Social network

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; COLLECTIVISM; COMMUNAL MASTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ESKIMO; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICULTURAL MASTERY SCALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RURAL AREA; SELF MASTERY; UNITED STATES; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FRIEND; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STANDARD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; ALASKA; CHILD; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INUITS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RURAL POPULATION; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865654052     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025505     Document Type: Article

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