Validating Socio-Emotional Constructs Measuring Mechanisms Related to Stereotype Threat for Early Adolescents (Poster 20)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Two
  In Poster Session: Measurement Theory and Application 1

Abstract

Stereotype threat inhibits the performance of threatened groups (e.g., Black and Latinx students) through a variety of psychological mechanisms, such as evaluation anxiety, and can be overcome through the accumulation of various psychological assets, including a sense of belongingness. We assembled and validated a set of socioemotional constructs to measure these mechanisms in a large-scale randomized controlled trial, which tested the impacts of receiving a self-affirmation intervention designed to buffer students from harmful stereotypes. Results from survey data of 5,764 middle-school students show that the instrument is a reliable and valid measurement tool for assessing the socioemotional state of students in early adolescence. The instrument will be useful for interventionists and researchers hoping to measure these malleable psychological processes.

Authors

• Cong Ye, American Institutes for Research
  Presenting Author

• Trisha Borman, American Institutes for Research
  Non-Presenting Author

• Geoffrey D. Borman, Arizona State University
  Non-Presenting Author