Measuring Gender Identity and Religious Identity with Adapted Versions of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure—Revised

Brien Ashdown, Natalie Homa and Carrie Brown

Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, 2014, vol. 4, issue 1, 226

Abstract: Adolescent identity develops across various domains (e.g., ethnicity, gender, religion). Although these domainsshare elements of identity (e.g., belongingness, self-categorization) there is a lack of continuity in the elementsselected when measuring various domains of adolescent identity. This study tested whether an adapted version ofPhinney and Ong’s (2007) Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure—Revised (developed to measure adolescents’ethnic identity) could also measure gender and religious identities. Participants (N = 247, 56% female, Mage =13.33 years) completed adapted versions of the MEIM—R measuring gender identity (which we call theMulti-Identity Measure for Gender) and religious identity (Multi-Identity Measure for Religion). Confirmatoryfactor analysis models for the MIM-Gender and MIM-Religion scales demonstrated modest to good fits. Inaddition, the MIM-Gender and MIM-Religion scales demonstrated preliminary validity. These preliminaryresults suggest the adapted MEIM—R scales have the potential to measure domains of adolescent identitybeyond ethnicity.

Date: 2014
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