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Measures<\/h2>\n

A list of measures and manipulations used in my research, including reliability and relevant citations<\/p>\n

Measures of Fidelity.\u00a0<\/strong>These measures are used in assessing the fidelity of the Pathways to Success Intervention<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Fidelity Checklist\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

–\u00a0Active Ingredients<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

–\u00a0Student Level Fidelity<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Interpretation of Experienced Ease and Difficulty Scales<\/strong><\/a>. These scales assess how people respond to experiences of ease and difficulty, consisting of four subscales; ease-as-possibility, ease-as-triviality, difficulty-as-importance, difficulty-as-impossibility. From Fisher, O. & Oyserman, D. (2017). Assessing Interpretations of Experienced Ease and Difficulty as Motivational Constructs.\u00a0Motivation Science, 17, 1-31.<\/p>\n

Priming Individualism and Collectivism in English\u00a0(Korean and Chinese).\u00a0<\/strong>This manipulation has been used to activate an individualistic or collectivisitic mindset by having participants circle pronouns that are either singular or plural.\u00a0<\/strong>From: Oyserman, D. Sorensen, N. Reber, R., & Chen, S. (2009) Connecting and separating mindsets: Culture as situated cognition.\u00a0Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97,\u00a0<\/em>217-215.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Uncertainty Word Completion Task<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>This task provided a manipulation check of a self vs. world uncertainty manipulation. From:\u00a0Smith, G., James, L., Varnum, M., & Oyserman, D. (2014) Give up or get going? Productive uncertainty in\u00a0uncertain times.\u00a0Self & Identity, 13,\u00a0<\/i>681-700.<\/a><\/p>\n

School is the Path Measure<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>This measure provides a French and English versions of a scale to assess the extent to which students believe school is the way to success. From:\u00a0Nurra, C., & Oyserman, D. (2018). From future self to current action: An identity-based motivation perspective.\u00a0Self and Identity, 17,\u00a0<\/em>343-364.<\/a><\/p>\n

Asian-American Identity Scale<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>This measures provides a socially contextualized model Asian American Identity adding the importance of family focus. From:Oyserman, D., & Sakamoto, I. (1997). Being Asian American: Identity, cultural constructs, and stereotype perception.\u00a0The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 33,<\/em>\u00a0435-453.<\/a><\/p>\n

Racial-Ethnic Identity and Self-Schema Scales<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Racial-ethnic identity subscales (connectedness, awareness of racism, and embedded achievement) are provided, as are reliability (alpha and confirmatory factor analyses) and stability information in\u00a0Oyserman, D., Brickman, D., & M. Rhodes (2007). Racial\u2010ethnic identity in adolescence: Content and consequences for African American and Latino youth. In. A. Fuligni (Ed.) Social Categories, Identities and Educational Participation. Pp91\u2010114. New York: Russell\u2010Sage.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Racial-ethnic identity can be conceptualized as a self-schema with reliability and stability provided in\u00a0Oyserman, D. (2008). Racial\u2010ethnic self\u2010schemas: Multi\u2010dimensional identity\u2010based motivation. Journal of Research on Personality, 42, 1186\u20131198.<\/a><\/p>\n

Possible Selves and Plausibility Instruments and Coding Instructions <\/a><\/strong>The OSF provides the open-ended (in English, Spanish, and Chinese) and close-ended (in English) possible selves measures and the coding manuals for the open-ended responses. Open-ended has been validated in Oyserman, D., & Markus, H. (1990). Possible selves and delinquency.\u00a0Journal of<\/i>Personality and Social Psychology, 59<\/i>(1), 112-125.<\/a>\u00a0Close-ended has been validated in \u00a0<\/a>Kemmelmeier, M. & Oyserman, D. (2001). Gendered influence of downward social comparisons on current and possible selves.\u00a0\u00a0Journal of Social Issues, 57,<\/i> 129-148.<\/a>\u00a0Note the spanish translation has been piloted but not fully tested.<\/p>\n

Instructions for Coding Academic Plausibility for College Students\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Possible Selves Citations, Measures, and Coding Instructions for College Age Participants<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Individualism and Collectivism<\/a>\u00a0(Hebrew 12-Item Version<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Hebrew 16-Item Version<\/a>\u00a0as well as\u00a0Rating scale<\/a>;\u00a0Japanese version<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0scoring key<\/a> also available, for more information on these contact K. Ohbuchi, ohbuchi@sal.tohoku.ac.jp)<\/strong>\u00a0This provides brief measures of individualism and collectivism. From:\u00a0Oyserman, D. (1993). The lens of personhood: Viewing the self, others, and conflict in a multicultural society.\u00a0Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65<\/i>, 993-1009.<\/a><\/p>\n

Visual Form of Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultural Mindset Primes<\/a>.<\/strong> This manipulation was used to subtly activate an individualistic or collectivistic mindset. From Mourey, J., Oyserman, D., & Yoon, C. (2013) One without the other: Seeing relationships in everyday objects. Psychological Science, 24(9), 1615 – 1622. Doi 10.1177\/0956797613475631\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Supplemental Materials<\/h2>\n

Science News<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>11-02-2005
\nReview of culture set within framework of amae research<\/p>\n

Appendix for Oyserman, Bybee, & Terry, 2006<\/strong><\/a>\u00a001-24-2006)
\nThis describes the background to our use of compliance analyses in Oyserman, Bybee, & Terry, JPSP<\/p>\n

Appendix for Journal of Family Psychology, 2007<\/strong><\/a>\u00a003-27-2007
\nThis appendix provides details of analyses and figures depicting the models for Kahng, Oyserman, Bybee, and Mowbray (2007) Mothers with serious mental illness: When symptoms decline does parenting improve? Journal of Family Psychology<\/p>\n

Oyserman and Lee Psychological Bulletin (2008) Appendix B<\/strong><\/a>\u00a012-18-2007
\nThis Appendix accompanies Oyserman & Lee (2008) Does Culture Influence What and How We Think? Effects of Priming Individualism and Collectivism (which can be found by clicking the Culture click button)<\/p>\n

Priming Individual and Collective Mindset<\/strong><\/a>\u00a005-17-2009
\nThis is the instructions and priming tasks for priming individual mindset and collective mindset using conceptual replications of the original task from Gabriel and Gardner (1999)<\/p>\n

Appendix to Zhu et al. (2014) BJEP<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis appendix provides the full procedures, measures, and analytic plan for Zhu et al BJEP<\/p>\n

Supplemental materials for Oyserman et al. (2015) Self and Identity
\n<\/a><\/strong>These are the supplemental analyses and the full measures for Oyserman et al Self and Identity (in press)<\/p>\n

Supplemental Materials for Lewis, N. Jr. & Oyserman, D. (2015). When Does the Future Begin? Time Metrics Matter, Connecting Present and Future Selves. 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