Multicultural Mastery Scale for Youth: Multidimensional Assessment of Culturally Mediated Coping Strategies
Self-mastery refers to problem-focused coping facilitated through personal agency. Communal mastery describes problem solving through an interwoven social network. This study investigates an adaptation of self- and communal mastery measures for youth. Given the important distinction between family a...
| Published in: | Psychological Assessment |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3394699 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21928912 https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025505 |
| Summary: | Self-mastery refers to problem-focused coping facilitated through personal agency. Communal mastery describes problem solving through an interwoven social network. This study investigates an adaptation of self- and communal mastery measures for youth. Given the important distinction between family and peers in the lives of youth, these adaptation efforts produced Mastery-Family and Mastery-Friends subscales, along with a Mastery-Self subscale. We tested these measures for psychometric properties and internal structure with 284 12 to 18-year-old predominately Yup’ik Eskimo Alaska Native adolescents from rural, remote communities — a non-Western culturally distinct group hypothesized to display higher levels of collectivism and communal mastery. Results demonstrate a subset of items adapted for youth function satisfactorily, a three-response alternative format provided meaningful information, and the subscale’s underlying structure is best described through three distinct first-order factors organized under one higher order mastery factor. |
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