Development of Culturally Grounded Measures: Case Studies from an Indigenous Youth Suicide Prevention Effort.
Suicide is the leading cause of death among Alaska Native youth, making prevention a primary health research priority. Alaska Native communities have responded with grass-roots initiatives using local Indigenous frameworks to build resilience and promote well-being through cultural strengths. These...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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Buros Center for Testing,
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| Series: | Cultural And Linguistic Considerations When Developing, Adapting, And Validating Measures
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| Summary: | Suicide is the leading cause of death among Alaska Native youth, making prevention a primary health research priority. Alaska Native communities have responded with grass-roots initiatives using local Indigenous frameworks to build resilience and promote well-being through cultural strengths. These efforts are rarely evaluated, and there is critical need to adapt measures to allow study of these strengths-based, culturally grounded suicide prevention efforts. This intermediate-level presentation will describe our efforts to adapt the Family Environment Scale and the Reasons for Living Scale as case studies in use of a collaborative, sequential-iterative measurement development process. This process required us to rewrite every item for local comprehension and relevance, to author new item content on the Family Environment Scale, and to engage in significant construct elaboration of the Reasons for Living Scale in response to community priorities and cultural distinctiveness. The result was the development of two essentially new scales, the Family Relationship Dimension (FRD) scale and the Reasons for Life (RFL) scale, both of which assess protective factors from suicide for rural Yup'ik Alaska Native youth. Emergent scientific considerations and ethical concerns and resulting psychometric operating characteristics, internal structure, and external validity of both measures will be explored. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed September 18, 2020). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (89 minutes). |
| Playing Time: | 01:28:32 |
