Although some difficulties exist in analysing the interplay between each of these factors, the Swedish population registers have added considerably to our understanding of each of the presented individual aetiological themes. The ability to study the whole population over several decades has been particularly useful in determining the timing of exposures.
In this article we report the construction of a new survey -specifically, the Brunel Ethnic Behavior Inventory (BEBI) -designed to measure ethnic speech and ethnic action as separate, yet related, aspects of individuals' ethnic behavior. Using Tajfel's (1981;Tajfel & Turner, 1986) social identity theory as our conceptual frame of reference, we sought an answer to the research question of how many factors actually are measured by the BEBI; and we tested the hypothesis that a two-factor model (i.e., ethnic speech and ethnic action as two correlated factors) would provide significantly better goodness-of-fit to the correlational data than would a one-factor model (i.e., ethnic behavior as one undifferentiated factor). Across one pilot sample (n = 101) and two main samples (n = 120 for Sample 1, n = 148 for Sample 2), we found that, not only did the BEBI measure two factors at most (i.e., ethnic speech and ethnic action); but consistent with our hypothesis, the two-factor model yielded better goodness-of-fit than did the one-factor model. Implications for the conceptualization and measurement of "ways of ethnicity" (Verkuyten, 2005) are discussed.
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