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| Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) (Brink et al., 1982) | |
| Purpose: To assess health status, living situation, stressful life events, and informal support of elderly persons | |
| Ada Mui Ph.D., Columbia University School of Social Work | |
| Population: Chinese elders | |
| Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) (Brink et al., 1982) | |
| Purpose: To assess health status, living situation, stressful life events, and informal support of elderly persons | |
| Tazuko Shibusawa, Ph.D., Columbia University School of Social Work | |
| Population: Japanese American elders | |
| BSI Depression and Anxiety (Derogatis, 1975) | |
| Purpose: To assess the frequency of depression and anxiety symptoms | |
| Marianne Yoshioka Ph.D., Columbia University School of Social Work | |
| Population: Asian, Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic adults | |
| CES-D Scale (Radloff, 1977) | |
| Purpose: To measure frequency of depression symptoms. | |
| Rashmi
Gupta Ph.D. Alice Yick, Ph.D., E Research |
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| Population: Older Chinese immigrant adults | |
| Chinese Depressive Symptom Scale (Lin, 1989) | |
| Purpose: To measure depressive symptoms among Chinese adults | |
| Nan
Lin, Ph.D. State University of New York at Albany |
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| Population: Chinese adults residing in China | |
| Beck Depression Inventory - short form (Beck & Beck, 1972) | |
| Purpose: To assess depression symptoms and mood | |
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Jennifer Crocker, Ph.D. |
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| Population: Asian Undergraduate students | |
| Beck Depression Inventory - Hmong adaptation (Beck et al., 1961) | |
| Purpose: To assess depression symptoms and mood | |
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Mouanoutoua, V.L., Ph.D. |
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| Population: Hmong adults residing in California | |
| Beck Hopelessness Scale (Beck, Weissman, Lester, & Trexler, 1974) | |
| Purpose: To assess level of negative expectations about the future | |
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Jennifer Crocker, Ph.D. |
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| Population: Asian Undergraduate students | |
| Beck Hopelessness Scale: Chinese version (Beck, Weissman, Lester, & Trexler, 1974) | |
| Purpose: To assess level of negative expectations about the future | |
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D.T.L. Shek, Ph.D. |
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| Population: 500 Chinese undergraduate students | |
| Life Distress Inventory (Thomas, Yoshioka, & Ager, 1994) | |
| Purpose: To measure self-reported distress across areas of social life and functioning | |
| Marianne
Yoshioka, Ph.D., Columbia University School of Social Work Tazuko Shibusawa, Ph.D., Columbia University School of Social Work |
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| Population: Asian, Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic adults | |
| Race-Related Stressor Scale (RRSS) (Loo, Fairbank, Scurfield, Ruch, King, Adams, & Chemtob, 2001) | |
| Purpose:To assess exposure to race-related stressors experienced by veterans | |
| Chalsa Loo, Ph.D., National Center for PTSD | |
| Population: Asian-American adults | |
| Chapman Scales (Chapman, Chapman, & Roulin, 1976) | |
| Purpose: To assess number of psychotic indicators | |
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Phillip M. Chmielewski |
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| Population: Asian undergraduate students | |
| General Behavior Inventory (Depue & Klein, 1988) | |
| Purpose: To identify individuals at risk for serious affective disorder | |
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Phillip M. Chmielewski |
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| Population: Asian undergraduate students | |
| Eating Attitudes Test (Japanese version) (Mukai, Crago, Shisslak, 1994) | |
| Purpose: To measure eating disturbances among Japanese women | |
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T. Mukai |
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| Population: Japanese female undergraduate students in Japan and European American female undergraduates in the United States | |
| Body Dissatisfation Sub-Scale of the Eating Disorders Inventory (Japanese version) (Nagata, Kirke, Matsunaga, Iketani, Yoshida, & Yamagami, 1994) | |
| Purpose: To measure body dissatisfaction among Japanese women | |
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T. Mukai |
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| Population: Japanese female undergraduate students in Japan and European American female undergraduates in the United States | |
| Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985) | |
| Purpose: To assess overall satisfaction with life | |
| Marianne R. Yoshioka, Ph.D., Columbia University School of Social Work | |
| Population: Asian, Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic adults | |
| Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985) | |
| Purpose: To assess overall satisfaction with life | |
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Jennifer Crocker, Ph.D.
University of Michigan |
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| Population: Asian Undergraduate students | |
| Perceived Caregiver Burden Scale (PCB) (Stommel, Given & Given, 1990) | |
| Purpose: To assess caregiver burden in terms of perceptions and feelings about caregivers' physical and emotional health, family relationships, social life, work, and finances | |
| Rashmi Gupta, Ph. D. | |
| Population: Asian Indian adults | |
| The Elder Life Adjustment Interview Schedule (ELAIS for depression) (Dubanoski, Heiby, Kameoka, & Wong, 1996). | |
| Purpose: To assess depression, life satisfaction, and their theoretical determinants among older adults | |
| Joan Dubanoski, Ph. D. | |
| Population: Asian-American and Hawaiian-American elders | |
| Perceived Support Scale (Krause & Markides, 1990) | |
| Purpose: To measure the social support provided and received by elderly caregivers. | |
| Rashmi Gupta, Ph. D. | |
| Population: South Asian immigrant adults | |
| Dyadic Adjustment Scale- Chinese version (Spanier, 1976) | |
| Purpose: To measure the quality of marriage or intimate relationship adjustment | |
| D.T.L. Shek, Ph. D. | |
| Population: Hong Kong Chinese adults: maritally adjusted and mal-adjusted | |
| Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965) | |
| Purpose: To assess level of self reported self-esteem | |
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Jennifer Crocker, Ph.D.
University of Michigan |
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| Population: Asian Undergraduate students | |
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The
Collective Self-Esteem Scale (CSES) (Luhtanen & Crocker, 1992) |
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| Purpose: To measure one's positive social or collective identity | |
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Jennifer Crocker, Ph.D.,
University of Michigan |
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| Population: Asian Undergraduate students | |
| Six-Factor Self-Concept Scale (Stake, 1994) | |
| Purpose: To measure aspects of self-concept | |
| Barbara
J. Yanico, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Theresa Gen Chih Lu, University of San Diego |
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| Population: Asian women undergraduate students | |
| Coping Attitudes, Sources, and Practices Questionnaire (Yeh, 1999) | |
| Purpose: To investigate coping attitudes, practices, and sources | |
| Christine
Yeh, Ph.D., Teachers College Yu-Wei Wang, University of Missouri-Columbia |
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| Population: Asian undergraduate students | |
| Adolescent-Adult Parenting Inventory (Bavolek, 1990) | |
| Purpose: To assess parenting perceptions and behaviors | |
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Saigeetha
Jambunathan, Ph.D, SUNY New Paltz |
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| Population: Asian American, Asian Indian, Hispanic, European-American, and African American mothers | |
| Asian American Family Conflicts Scale (Lee, Choe, Kim, & Ngo, 2000) | |
| Purpose of Measure: To assess conflicts in values and practices between U.S.-raised children and their immigrant parents. | |
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R. M. Lee Ph.D. |
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| Population: Asian American undergraduate students | |
| Loss of Face Scale (Zane, 2000) | |
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Purpose: To assess the extent to which one avoids situations and behaviors that are related to loss of face. |
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| Nolan Zane Ph.D., University of California at Davis | |
| Population: Caucasian and Asian (Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese undergraduate students) | |
| The Medical Outcomes Study short form (SF-36) (Ware & Sherbourne, 1992) | |
| Purpose: To assess health-related quality of life | |
| Doris
F. Chang, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Dept of Social Medicine Chi-Ah Chun, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine David T. Takeuchi, Ph.D., Indiana University Department of Sociology, Indianapolis Haikang Shen, Ph.D., University of California |
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| Population: Chinese American adults | |
| The Medical Outcomes Study short form (SF-36) (Ware & Sherbourne, 1992) | |
| Purpose: To assess health-related quality of life | |
| Marianne Yoshioka, Ph.D., Columbia University School of Social Work | |
| Population: Asian, Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic adults | |
| Marín and Marín Acculturation Scale (Marín, Sabogal, Marín, Otero-Sabogal, et al., 1987) | |
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Purpose: To assess the level of acculturation among the foreign born Chinese Americans. |
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| Rashmi
Gupta Ph.D. Alice Yick, Ph.D., E Reserach |
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| Population: Chinese immigrant adults | |
| :The Suinn-Lew Asian Self Identity Acculturation (Suinn, Ahuna, & Khoo, 1992) | |
| Purpose: To assess the level of acculturation of an Asian person | |
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Richard M. Suinn, Ph.D.,
ABPP |
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| Population: Asian adults | |
| Homesickness and Contentment (HC) Scale (Shin, 1992) | |
| Purpose: To assess homesickness, contentment, loneliness, and depression. | |
| Heajong
Shin, Ph.D.,Soonchunhyang University, South Korea, Neil Abell, Ph.D.,Florida State University School of Social Work |
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| Population: Chinese and Korean graduate students | |
| Bem Sex Role Inventory (Bem 1974) | |
| Purpose: To measure masculine, feminine and androgynous personality traits among men and women | |
| Yoko
Sugihara Ph.D., Miyazaki, Japan Emiko Katsurada Ph.D., Miyazaki, Japan |
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| Population: Japanese college students in Japan | |
| Attributional Style Questionaire (ASQ) (Peterson, Semmel, von Baeyer, Abramson, Metalsky, & Seligman, 1982) | |
| Purpose: To describe individual's characteristic and habitual patterns of causal interpretation (i.e., attributional style). | |
| Kathleen Crittenden, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Dept. of Sociology | |
| Population: Taiwanese and American non-Asian college students | |
| Chinese Self-Report Family Inventory (C-SFI) (Beavers, Hampson, & Hulus, 1990) | |
| Purpose: To measure an individual's perceptions of family competence and style | |
| Daniel T. L. Shek, Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong | |
| Popuation: Chinese parents and adolescents | |
| The Revised Attitudes toward Wife Abuse Scale (Yoshioka & Dinoia, 2000) | |
| Purpose of Measure: To assess the extent to which a respondent endorses attitudes that support the use of violence against a woman by an intimate male partner | |
| Marianne Yoshioka, Ph.D., Columbia University School of Social Work | |
| Population: Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, South Asian adults | |