. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 21.

Published in final edited form as: J Black Psychol. 2009 May 1;35(2):271–288. doi: 10.1177/0095798409333593

TABLE 1.

Instrument Development and Testing Procedure

Step	Description
1	Literature search to identify existing scale
2	Original item development
3	Item review for face validity and cultural appropriateness
4	Revising and climinating items based on review; forming initial scales
5	Cognitive response testing among 15 African Americans
6	item revision based on testing results
7	Second wave of cognitive response testing among 15 African Americans
8	Final item revisions based on second wave of testing
9	Psychometric testing (test-retest reliability, item-total correlations, internal consistency and concurrent validity) of final scales among 55 African Americans