Abstract
Self-mastery refers to problem-focused coping facilitated through personal agency. Communal mastery describes problem solving through an interwoven social network. This study investigates an adaptation of self-and communal mastery measures for youth. Given the important distinction between family and peers in the lives of youth, these adaptation efforts produced Mastery-Family and Mastery-Friends subscales, along with a Mastery-Self subscale. We tested these measures for psychometric properties and internal structure with 284 predominately Yup'ik Eskimo Alaska Native adolescents (12-to 18-year-olds) from rural, remote communities-a non-Western culturally distinct group hypothesized to display higher levels of collectivism and communal mastery. Results demonstrate a subset of items adapted for youth function satisfactorily, a 3-response alternative format provided meaningful information, and the subscale's underlying structure is best described through 3 distinct first-order factors organized under 1 higher order mastery factor.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 313-327 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Psychological assessment |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2012 |
Keywords
- American Indian and Alaska Native
- Communal mastery
- Coping
- Psychometrics
- Self-efficacy
- Social network
- mastery
- measures