Excerpt from the Research Article

The sample consisted of 217 Korean American students selected from ethnically diverse high schools in the Los Angeles area.

Phinney's 14-item Level of Ethnic Identity subscale was designed to assess the degree of ethnic identity among adolescents. Items such as "I am happy that I am a member of the group I belong to" and "I have a clear sense of my own ethnic background and what it means to me" (were included in the scale).

Phinney's 6-item Attitudes Toward Other Groups subscale was designed to assess attitudes toward other groups. Respondents were asked to rate statements such as "I like meeting and getting to know people from ethnic groups other than my own."

A five-item checklist was developed to assess perceived discrimination. Items asked respondents' perception of society's unfair treatment of their ethnic group and also the personal experience of unfair treatment. Typical items stated, "During your high school years, how often have you thought that your ethnic group is negatively stereotyped by mainstream people?" (Shrake& Rhee, 2004, p. 608).

1. Do the males or females have a higher mean on "Perceived discrimination"?

2. Should the null hypothesis for the difference between the two means referred to in Question 1 be rejected?

3. The value of p for the t-test for the means of males and females for "Other-group attitudes" is p < .001. What does this mean?

4. Which of the following differences between males and females is significant at a lower level?

5. This research was conducted with Korean adolescents in the Los Angeles area. Would you be willing to generalize the results of this study to Korean adolescents who live in other regions of the country? Why? Why not?

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