Perceived Racism Scale

Hey, guys, how's it going?

Eso today?

The assessment that I'm going to be speaking about is

the perceived racism scale.

Um, I thought this was really interesting and super relevant,

just based off what's going on in the world.

And I also think it's very helpful.

I'll get more into that for my conclusion.

But let's just start with some quick fax.

So the perceived racism scale, in other words, is the

PRS. That's just for short.

Yeah, Um, it was it was really difficult to find,

like, any sort of information on this.

Um, but the article that I found quoted this, um,

this assessment along with, like, 10 other ones, and I

was able to find nothing other than this like a

few articles.

But it kept saying that the author was Rashida Atkins.

But, um, I wasn't sure if it was the if

it was for the PRS or if it was just

for that specific article.

But either way leads back to Rashida Atkins publishers is

a c i n a l h.

Also psych info.

Also MEDLINE and also pub med.

Um, the cost was very difficult again finding this, um,

this assessment was so so difficult to find any information

or website that just had a clear cut costs.

Um, all I could find on the Web was this

email of this person who goes to Duke.

So if you guys wanna email that email, go ahead

and find out the cost.

Um, administration time I took a wild guess.

I took estimate, which I believe it would probably be

around like an hour.

Assuming 51 questions take, like, a minute to a minute

and 15 seconds on the h reflecting eso I I

assume an hour, um 51 item instrument.

As I said earlier, um, target population is predominantly African

American adults, but it can be adapted for other minority

populations. So, um, yeah, very personal.

For me objectives is to understand the perceived exposure to

racism. And, um, the test format is on the next

slide. But before I move on, um, I wanted to

read a quote from Martin Luther King.

It says qihoo passively accept evil is as much involved

in it as he who helps perpetrated Martin Luther King.

Something to think about.

So the format a ZX we all know racism is

the real virus it has been for a while, but

the format of the test the first section has 43

items and as the respondents to rate the frequency with

which they have been exposed to racist events in four

domains. Job, academic, public and racist statements.

Eso it's between zero and 70 being not applicable.

Seven. Being several times a day.

Um, I thought it was really interesting that it included

racist statements separately.

I feel like that could be very interrelated with job,

academic, public something that I thought they could have included

was like, um, leisure time.

But I guess that that could fall into Publicas.

Well, it's a subdivision.

The second section includes eight items which require respondents to

indicate the emotional appraisal of each event.

E g angry, frustrated, sad, powerless, etcetera.

And the third section is requires respondents to indicate coping

strategies that have been used for each event, e g.

Speaking up, ignoring it, etcetera.

So as you guys could assume this might this this

test might be a bit of like off of, of

how the person who's grading this assessments biases fall into

it really depends on how well they are trained so

yeah, eso when talking about some sample questions, Um, one

of them was because I am black.

I am assigned to jobs no one else wants again.

This is all perceived to racism.

That's what it's measuring on.

The next one, I actually, I I actually adjusted it

for something that's personal for me, but I have been

made to feel uncomfortable in the classroom for being Muslim.

If it was a Muslim, I could have been.

I've been I have been made to feel uncomfortable in

the classroom for being Hispanic or for white or black,

you know, fill in the blank.

So very adjustable.

This'll assessment.

I believe I have been refused housing because I am

black. This is super current.

Um, I was actually speaking with my sister about, like,

the real estate market and how property value, um, gets

decreased or black people are less likely to get a

bank loan for a house for a mortgage than other

races. And yeah, it's just B s.

It's ridiculous.

And yeah, when I go shopping, I'm often followed because

of the color of my skin.

Um, you know, how are you perceiving racism?

Um, this is Malcolm X praying inside of a mosque

because you guys know probably know Malcolm X was a

Muslim. Um believe is a Black Panther.

I could be wrong on that, so don't quote me.

But quote from him is I am not a racist.

I'm against every form of racism and segregation, every form

of discrimination.

I believe in human beings and that all human beings

should be respected as such regard regardless of their color.

Eso going on to the next section.

Um, scoring.

So how is it scored?

Well, the scores of the P R s frequency of

exposure scale can range from 0 to 301 higher.

Scores indicate more frequent perceptions of exposure to racism and

lower less frequent perceptions of exposure to racism.

It's a very interesting on.

I think, Ah, lot of this test can be filled

in by, um, I think it would be helpful for

this assessment.

Specifically, if you have, like a pre, um, like maybe

an intake just to get to know the person, because

a person in Africa whose around black people all day

long and that's all they know and they haven't been

around any white people, and they are the dominant, the

dominant culture.

And, you know, skin color would be totally different from

a black person in the suburbs off Long Island or

something like that.

So the reliability of this eso based on all my

research and it was very, uh, very, um then because

I wasn't able to find much.

Unfortunately, on my specific research article, they said they found

adequate coefficient.

Alphas, um, that show that this assessment is reliable when,

um, talking about validity?

Yeah. I'm sorry.

Was that validity?

No. Yeah.

Validity when talking about validity of third reporting provided confirmation

off the accuracy of the factor analysis performed and thereby

provides additional sound evidence of the validity of these instruments

for use and African American adults and adolescents, respectively.

So, as I said, it was hard to even find

a website for this assessment.

But, um, all in all the places that I did

find, the few articles I did find were, um we're

we're leaving to saying that it is pretty pretty on

point. So, in conclusion, what do I think about this

assessment? Um, I think this assessment is very good.

I think it would be very helpful again.

I wasn't able to get the whole assessment.

I couldn't even find the price, unfortunately, but I think

assessments like this are very good.

And it made me start thinking about about administering these

earlier. Um, what if we did these assessments in elementary

school? How much more effective would it be?

How much more people would we catch?

How many?

How many more Children would we would we would we

catch them before they're adults?

And, you know, actually, in positions of power where they

were, they decline a mortgage loan or a bank loan

for a black couple who we're just getting declined or

or decreasing their property value just because of the color

of their skin.

Um, I believe I think I could be wrong, but

I think this all starts early.

And if we were to give these assessments early in

elementary school, um, you know, it would be all the

more effective, Um, some of these pictures that I found

I just Google Jim Crow, Jim Crow, high resolution, and

I found that this I mean, this is actually really

things. I mean, how crazy is that?

We want white tenants in our white community.

Um, unfortunately, I mean, yeah, this is still this.

This still goes on today, um, Imperial Imperial Laundry Company.

We wash for white people only, you know, just makes

me think about if I were in America and during

the time of Jim Crow, you know, being treated like,

like, less than a human being.

Um, yeah.

It's just I think this assessment is helpful for preventing

history, repeating itself the earlier the better.

I think so.

All right, well, thank you so much.

Perceived Racism Scale

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