title: The Multicultural Identity Integration Scale (MULTIIS): Developing a comprehensive measure for configuring one's multiple cultural identities within the self.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The research investigating how one's multiple cultural identities are configured within the self has yet to account for existing cultural identity configurations aside from integration, and for identifying with more than 2 cultural groups at once. The current research addresses these issues by constructing the Multicultural Identity Integration Scale (MULTIIS) to examine 3 different multicultural identity configurations, and their relationship to well-being based on Amiot and colleagues' (2007) cognitive-developmental model of social identity integration (CDSMII).
  
  
  METHODS
  Diverse samples of multicultural individuals completed the MULTIIS along with identity and well-being measures. (Study 1A: N = 407; 1B: N = 310; 2A = 338 and 2A = 254) RESULTS: Reliability and confirmatory factorial analyses (Studies 1A and 2A) all supported the factorial structure of the MULTIIS. Regression analyses (Studies 1B and 2B) confirmed that the integration subscale of the MULTIIS positively predicted well-being, whereas compartmentalization negatively predicted well-being. Categorization was inconsistently related to well-being.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings support the CDSMII and the usefulness of the MULTIIS measure, and suggest that each identity configuration is uniquely related to well-being outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Maya A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Yampolsky
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Catherine E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Amiot
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Roxane
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: de la Sablonnière
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012649:Self Concept; D012933:Social Identification; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult