Everyday Colourism Scale (ECS)

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Chapter 74 - Everyday Colourism Scale (ECS)

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Nadia Craddock ,

Aisha Phoenix ,

Paul White ,

Phillippa C. Diedrichs and

Fiona Kate Barlow

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Virginia Ramseyer Winter ,

Tracy L. Tylka and

Antoinette M. Landor

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Virginia Ramseyer Winter: Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Tracy L. Tylka: Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Antoinette M. Landor: Affiliation:
University of Missouri

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The 16-item Everyday Colourism Scale (ECS; Craddock et al. 2023) assesses perceived experiences of subtle and more overt mistreatment and prejudice based on an individual’s skin shade. The ECS can be administered online and/or in-person to adults and is free to use in any setting. This chapter first discusses the development of the ECS and then provides evidence of its psychometrics. More specifically, the Everyday Colourism Scale has been found to have a 2-factor structure within exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Internal consistency reliability, test-retest reliability, convergent validity, and incremental validity support the use of the ECS. This chapter also provides the ECS items in their entirety, instructions for administering the ECS to participants, the item response scale, and the scoring procedure. Logistics of use, such as permissions, copyright, and contact information, are provided for readers.

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Everyday Colourism Scale ECS items colourism skin shade prejudice appearance-based discrimination scale development psychometric evidence factor structure reliability validity administration scoring

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Information: Handbook of Body Image-Related Measures , pp. 225 - 227

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009398275.075 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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