Measuring Social Privilege Attitudes Using a Situational Judgment Test: Validation of the Diversity Engagement Test (DivET)

Abstract

White privilege is a popular social inequality research topic. However, current attitudinal questionnaires of White privilege are problematic given that the definition of White privilege presumes that the majority of Whites are unaware of their privileged status. The current study proposes that situational judgment tests offer an alternative assessment strategy. The Diversity Engagement Test (DivET) was based on the idea that rationalizations are ubiquitous when defending social privilege, and the argument that reactions to White privilege rationalizations are better indicators of attitudes about White privilege. The DivET was administered to both a student sample and a military sample, and initial results suggested that DivET scores generated acceptable evidence of reliability and validity, including internal structure, convergent validity, divergent validity, and criterion-related validity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 28, 2012
Accession Number
ADA565461

Entities

People

  • Neil M. Hauenstein

Organizations

  • Virginia Tech

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Factor Analysis
  • Judgment
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Measurement
  • Minority Groups
  • Pilot Studies
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Regression Analysis
  • Students
  • Surveys
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • United States
  • Validation

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  • Psychology

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