Shift-&-persist (S&P) coping has been shown to buffer against the effects of discrimination on psychosocial functioning in racially and ethnically minoritized youth. However, existing measures of S&P refer broadly to coping with stress and are not specifically tailored to the type of stressor individuals are coping with (e.g., discrimination). The current study evaluated the measurement properties, utility, and validity of a discrimination-specific adapted measure of S&P relative to an existing, general measure among a sample of 327 minoritized youth (M_age = 18.80, SD = 1.28, 78.6% female, 50.5% Black) recruited from a large public minority-serving institution in the southeastern United States. Contrary to our hypotheses, when the item stem was changed to refer to coping specifically with discrimination, the measurement properties of a validated S&P scale (Lam et al., 2018) were worse relative to the original measure. Overall, the general S&P measure produced larger main effects and explained two times more variance in depressive symptoms than discrimination-specific S&P. Findings do not rule out the idea that context-specific measures may better characterize coping with discrimination experiences than ‘trait-like’ general coping measures. However, results highlight that small adaptations to current measures may not be sufficient and may compromise predictive validity. Coping with discrimination measurement recommendations is discussed.

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评估针对歧视的转变和坚持应对措施的实用性和有效性

事实证明，转变与坚持（S&P）应对方式可以缓冲歧视对种族和族裔少数群体青年心理社会功能的影响。然而，标准普尔现有的衡量标准广泛涉及应对压力，并没有专门针对个人正在应对的压力源类型（例如歧视）。当前的研究评估了标准普尔针对歧视的适应措施相对于 327 名少数族裔青年样本（M_年龄 = 18.80，SD = 1.28，78.6% 女性，50.5 % Black）从美国东南部一家大型公共少数族裔服务机构招募。与我们的假设相反，当项目词干更改为专门应对歧视时，经过验证的标准普尔量表（Lam 等人，2018）的测量特性相对于原始测量更差。总体而言，一般标准普尔指标产生了更大的主效应，并解释了抑郁症状的方差是特定歧视标准普尔指标的两倍。研究结果并不排除这样一种观点，即与“类似特质”的一般应对措施相比，针对具体情况的措施可能更好地描述应对歧视经历的特征。然而，结果强调，对当前措施的小幅调整可能还不够，并且可能会损害预测的有效性。讨论了应对歧视测量建议的方法。