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+The Social Identities and Attitudes Scale (SIAS)

Picho & Brown (2011)

Topic: Social Identities - Social Identities

Instructions: 

For each of the following items, indicate the extent to which you have experienced the feeling or situation on a scale from 1 (Strongly disagree) to 7 (Strongly agree).

Response Options:

All seven factors had indicators ranked on a 7-point Likert scale with values ranging from (1) strongly disagree to (7) strongly agree.

Items:

  1. My gender influences how I feel about myself 
  2. Math is important to me
  3. My ethnicity forms a major part of my identity
  4. My gender contributes to my self-confidence
  5. My gender influences how teachers interpret my behavior
  6. I have always done well in math
  7. I value my ethnic background
  8. I am good at math
  9. Most people judge me on the basis of my ethnicity
  10. My gender is central to defining who I am
  11. Being good at math will be useful to me in my future
  12. My ethnicity affects how I feel about myself
  13. Most people judge me on the basis of my gender
  14. My ethnicity influences how I feel about myself 
  15. I learn things quickly in math
  16. My identity is strongly tied to my gender
  17. I feel a strong attachment to my ethnicity
  18. My gender affects how people treat me 
  19. I am unable to do well in school
  20. Stereotypes about my ethnic groups bother me
  21. I have strong math skill.
  22. My ethnicity is an important reflection of who I am
  23. I am connected to my ethnic heritage .71 
  24. My gender affects how people act towards me
  25. Most people have unexpressed racist thoughts .47
  26. My math abilities are important to my academic success .87
  27. My ethnicity affects how my peers interact with me 
  28. I can easily master advanced math concepts 
  29. Doing well in math matters to me
  30. Members of the opposite sex interpret my behavior based on my gender
  31. My ethnicity influences how teachers interact with me
  32. I value math
  33. My ethnicity affects how I interact with people of other ethnicities
  34. I am capable of excelling in math
  35. Doing well in math is critical to my future success
  36. People from other ethnic groups interpret my behavior based on my ethnicity
  37. Experience doubt about my math abilities
  38. Experience feelings of frustration
  39. Feel like am letting myself down
  40. Start to lose confidence in my abilities
  41. Feel like a failure
  42. Feel hopeless
  43. Feel like giving up

Citation:

Picho, K. & Brown S.W. (2011). Can stereotype threat be measured? a validation of the social identities and attitudes scale (SIAS). Journal of Advanced Academics, 22(3), 374-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/1932202X1102200302 Links to an external site.. 

Link to PDF:

https://journals-sagepub-com.oca.ucsc.edu/doi/10.1177/1932202X1102200302

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