Table 1.

Racial Discrimination Items, Factor Structure, and Descriptive Statistics

Discrimination item	Factor loadings			M	SD
	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3
How often did you experience the following from peers?
Teasing	0.18	0.27	0.72	1.78	1.03
Isolation/Exclusion	0.27	0.24	0.71	1.84	0.91
Name calling/Racial slurs and comments	0.18	0.25	0.75	1.79	1.09
Threats	0.32	0.22	0.75	1.84	0.90
Physical abuse/Violence	0.34	0.23	0.68	1.59	0.88
How often did you experience the following at school?
People assumed your English was poora	0.13	0.56	0.12	1.78	0.98
People didn’t like youb	0.21	0.76	0.24	1.84	0.95
People treated you unfairlyb	0.13	0.82	0.22	1.79	0.92
People treated your friends unfairlyb	0.18	0.79	0.21	1.84	0.92
You were wrongly disciplined (i.e., detention, suspension)a	0.26	0.61	0.20	1.59	0.92
You were given a lower grade than you deserveda	0.23	0.51	0.16	1.56	0.93
People expected more of you than others your agea	0.06	0.50	0.19	2.25	1.28
How often did you experience the following from the police?
Stopped	0.88	0.07	0.14	1.48	1.48
Harassed	0.90	0.09	0.09	1.35	1.35
Pulled over	0.87	0.08	0.10	1.49	1.48
Arrested	0.87	0.10	0.09	1.23	1.23
Taken to the police station	0.87	0.13	0.07	1.22	1.22
Hurt physically	0.76	0.07	0.22	1.21	1.21

Note. Based on focus group data from Phase 1, all items were generated in Phase 2 and tested in Phase 3 of the study. Factor estimate loadings above .40 are in bold.

^aAdapted from Fisher et al. 2000.

^bAdapted from Finch et al. 2000.