A Psychometric Validation of the Internal and External Motivation to Respond Without Prejudice Toward People With Disabilities Scale

Pruett, Steven R.; Deiches, Jon; Pfaller, Joseph; Moser, Erin; Chan, Fong

doi:10.1891/2168-6653.28.1.24

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“…Our results have robustly replicated the psychometric qualities of the IEMS scale (Plant & Devine, 1998;Klonis, Plant, & Devine, 2005;Pruett et al, 2014). Specifically, in both PCA and CFA, and across both social groups against which motivations to avoid prejudice were rated, we consistently observed that IEMS items clustered into two meaningful factors resembling two uncorrelated constructs reflecting internal and external reasons to avoid prejudiced thoughts and behaviors.…”

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“…Although the scale was originally developed to account for individual differences in intergroup bias against Blacks, it was adapted to evaluate internal and external motivations to withhold prejudice toward other minorities or marginalized social groups as well (Klonis, Plant, & Devine, 2005;Pruett, Deiches, Pfaller, Moser, & Chan, 2014). However, its psychometric properties have not been tested on population samples outside the United States, which is substantially different from regions of middle/eastern Europe in terms of cultural and historical experience with minorities.…”

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Slovak Version of Internal and External Motivation to Respond without Prejudice Scale

Michalko¹,

Plichtová²

2021

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Internal and external motivation to respond without prejudice scale (IEMS) provides a self-report tool sensitive to individual tendencies to control implicit and explicit prejudice without directly inquiring about attitudes toward an outgroup. The current study verified the scale's psychometric properties and construct validity on a Slovak sample. In line with the predictions, the principal component analysis suggested, and confirmatory factor analysis validated the presence of two uncorrelated factors of internal and external motivation. Additionally, while internal motivation was positively associated with adherence to egalitarianism and negatively with authoritarianism, external motivation did not demonstrate any of these relationships. Furthermore, only external motivation was found to be positively related to expressive self-control that parallels propositions claiming greater self-regulatory demands when egalitarian norms are followed to avoid social disapproval. Finally, both factors were positively correlated with concerns from appearing prejudiced, although internal motivation in a significantly greater degree, reflecting larger dependency on self-oriented concerns. With appropriate values of internal consistency for both factors, the IEMS scale provides a reliable self-report measure that might be used for systematic control of individual differences in the research of social cognition in intergroup context.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 73%

Section: Present Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%