Preliminary Validation of the Perceived
Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire in an Asian sample
Jasmin Kwok, St. John's University
Student
Elizabeth Brondolo, Department of
Psychology, St. John’s College of liberal Arts and Sciences
Asha Kumar, Juhee Jhalani, Jenni Atencio,
Jahanara Ullah, Robert Crupi, Daniel Chen
Abstract: The Perceived Ethnic
Discrimination Questionnaire (PEDQ) assesses lifetime exposure to
ethnicity-related maltreatment, and also includes four subscales
assessing social exclusion, workplace discrimination,
stigmatization, and threat/harassment. Evidence of the reliability
and construct validity of the PEDQ has been provided for Black and
Latino samples (Brondolo et al, 2005). This study provides
preliminary data on the validity of the PEDQ in a sample of 389
students and community members who self-identify as Asian. The
sample was diverse including individuals from a variety of
ethnicities, including 154 Chinese, 44 Filipinos, 62 Koreans, 86
Indians. The full PEDQ had very good internal consistency (a >
0.95 for the full sample and for the Indian, Chinese, Filipino and
Korean groups). All groups reported experiencing significantly more
ethnicity-related social exclusion than any other type of
discrimination. Men reported significantly more lifetime
discrimination than women (p < .05), and U.S. citizens and
American-born individuals reported more discrimination than
non-citizens and foreign-born individuals (p < .05). After
controlling for immigration status and citizenship, as well as age
and gender, between-ethnicity difference in exposure to racism were
no longer significant.