title: Inventory of college challenges for ethnic minority students: psychometric properties of a new instrument in Chinese Americans.
abstract: The Inventory of College Challenges for Ethnic Minority Students (ICCEMS) is a newly developed instrument that assesses challenges faced by ethnic minority college students across a range of cultural, academic, social, and practical domains. The present study tested the ICCEMS among Chinese American students in an attempt to identify its factor structure and assess its psychometric properties. A total of 13 factor domains emerged. The Cronbach's alpha and 1-month test-retest reliability of the subscales and the overall scale supported their reliability. Both criterion and construct validities were also demonstrated. Chinese American college students faced the greatest challenges in terms of unclear career direction and academic demands.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7400, USA. ywying10@socrates.berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Yu-Wen
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Ying
authors.forename: Peter Allen
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jeanne L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Tsai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology*; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept; D015206:Southwestern United States; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*