title: Multicultural Mastery Scale for youth: multidimensional assessment of culturally mediated coping strategies.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Center for Alaska Native Health Research, Instituteof Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK 99775-6480, USA. ctfok@alaska.edu
authors.forename: Carlotta Ching Ting
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Fok
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Henry
authors.forename: Gerald V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Mohatt
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000413:Alaska / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D004930:Inuit / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000592:standards; D011340:Problem Solving; D011582:Psychological Theory; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011594:Psychometrics; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012424:Rural Population; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012933:Social Identification; D012944:Social Support; D055815:Young Adult