TY - CHAP
T1 - Methodological issues in assessment research with ethnic minorities
AU - Okazaki, Sumie
AU - Sue, Stanley
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - Assessment research on ethnic minorities presents multiple methodological and conceptual challenges. This article addresses the difficulties in defining and examining ethnicity as a variable in psychological research. The authors assert that many of the problems stem from not making explicit the assumptions underlying the use of ethnicity as an explanatory variable and from inadequately describing cultural and contextual characteristics of ethnic minority samples. Also raised are common methodological problems encountered in examining race, ethnicity, and culture in assessment research, such as decisions regarding which populations to study, sampling methodologies, measure selection, method of assessment, and interpretation of results. Finally, some guidelines are offered for tackling some of the methodological dilemmas in assessment research with ethnic minorities.
AB - Assessment research on ethnic minorities presents multiple methodological and conceptual challenges. This article addresses the difficulties in defining and examining ethnicity as a variable in psychological research. The authors assert that many of the problems stem from not making explicit the assumptions underlying the use of ethnicity as an explanatory variable and from inadequately describing cultural and contextual characteristics of ethnic minority samples. Also raised are common methodological problems encountered in examining race, ethnicity, and culture in assessment research, such as decisions regarding which populations to study, sampling methodologies, measure selection, method of assessment, and interpretation of results. Finally, some guidelines are offered for tackling some of the methodological dilemmas in assessment research with ethnic minorities.
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U2 - 10.4324/9781315822129-9
DO - 10.4324/9781315822129-9
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85070005264
SN - 0415919630
SN - 9780415919630
SP - 26
EP - 40
BT - Readings in Ethnic Psychology
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -