+Diversity Endorsement Measure
Plaut, Garnett, Buffardi, & Sanchez-Burks (2011)
Topic: Diversity-Related Beliefs
Description of Measure:
Instructions:
Please rate your level of agreement on the following statements using the following scale: 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree).
Response Options:
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
- Strongly agree
Items:
- Universities should foster environments where differences are valued.
- One of the goals of higher education should be to teach people from different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds how to live and work together.
- A university education should expose students to the important differences in ideas and values that exist in the world.
- A university should help students understand that differences in backgrounds and experiences can lead to different values and ways of thinking.
- At the university, it’s not enough for there to be diversity of the student body, there should also be diversity in faculty and leadership.
- It is important to have multiple perspectives on campus (i.e., from different cultures, races, ethnicities, genders, socioeconomic backgrounds, and sexualities).
- I think my background will help me succeed at UC Santa Cruz.
- Students with different backgrounds and experiences can find their own way of being successful at UC Santa Cruz.
- There are different ways to be successful at UC Santa Cruz.
Citation:
Plaut, V. C., Garnett, F. G., Buffardi, L. E., & Sanchez-Burks, J. (2011). “What about me?” Perceptions of exclusion and Whites’ reactions to multiculturalism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(2), 337–353. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022832
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Link to PDF:
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/What_about_me_JPSP.pdf Links to an external site.