Development and initial validation of the Inventory of Microaggressions Against Black Individuals.

Abstract

The present article describes the development and initial validation of the Inventory of Microaggressions Against Black Individuals (IMABI) using a sample of 385 undergraduates who self-identified as Black or African American. The IMABI is a 14-item, unidimensional measure of racial microaggressions that captures both microinsults and microinvalidations. The present findings support the IMABI as a reliable and valid measure of microaggressions that was associated with general distress and perceived stress. Importantly, the association between the IMABI and psychological adjustment persisted even when social desirability and another measure of race-related stress were included in the analyses. Discussion focuses on the potential implications of the IMABI for understanding the daily experiences and psychological adjustment of Black individuals.

Racial microaggressions and daily well-being among Asian Americans.

“…NA = negative affect; PA = positive affect. Whereas our between-person results coincide with previous cross-sectional investigations in demonstrating that individuals who experience more microaggressions also report poorer psychological adjustment (e.g.. Mercer et al, 2011;Torres, DriscoU, & Burrow, 2010), our within-person analyses revealed important variability in the effects of daily micro-Note. These results are important to research on Asian American microaggressions, because they are derived from daily assessments that do not require participants to recollect temporally distant events.…”

Engaged Against the Machine: Institutional and Cultural Racial Discrimination and Racial Identity as Predictors of Activism Orientation among Black Youth

“…A sum score was computed for both subscales. This approach has been taken in previous research on racial discrimination (Mercer, Zeigler‐Hill, Wallace, & Hayes, ; Torres‐Harding, Andrade, & Romero Diaz, ). Scores for experiences of institutional racial discrimination (e.g., Been questioned about being in a White neighborhood for no reason ) ranged from 0 (no institutional racial discrimination) to 12 (all possible institutional racial discrimination experiences).…”

Microaggressions and Sexual Risk Behaviors in Black College Women: A Moderated Mediation Analysis

“…Microaggressions . The 14‐item Inventory of Microaggressions Against Black Individuals (Mercer, Zeigler‐Hill, Wallace, & Hayes, 2011) was used to assess frequency of microaggressions. Participants rate their response on a 5‐point Likert‐type scale ranging from 0 ( This has never happen to me ) to 4 ( This event happened and I was extremely upset ).…”

“…Participants rate their response on a 5‐point Likert‐type scale ranging from 0 ( This has never happen to me ) to 4 ( This event happened and I was extremely upset ). A sample item is “I was made to feel that my achievements were primarily due to preferential treatment based on my racial/ethnic background.” The reliability for the total scale has been proven (e.g., Mercer et al, 2011). In the current study, the internal consistency for the total scale was .90.…”