Schedule of Racist Events - SRE

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Created: January 10, 2022

Last Modified: January 16, 2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements the Schedule of Racist Events (SRE), a questionnaire to assess the racial discrimination in the lives of African Americans by Landrine & Klonoff (1996).

References

Landrine, H.,& Klonoff, E. A. (1996). The Schedule of Racist Events: A measure of racist discrimination and a study of its negative physical and mental health consequences. Journal of Black Psychology, 22(2), 144-168.

Duration

4 minutes

Overview

Landrine & Klonoff (1996) describe the SRE as follows:

"The Schedule of Racist Events (SRE) is an 18-item self report inventory that assesses the frequency
of racist discrimination (specific, stressful racist events) in the past (recent racist events) and
in one's entire life (lifetime racist events) and measures the extent to which this discrimination
was evaluated (appraised) as stressful (appraised racist events)."

The items are asses on the following scale:
Select '1' = If this has NEVER happened to you
Select '2' = If this has happened ONCE IN A WHILE (less than 10% of the time)
Select '3' = If this has happened SOMETIMES (10%-25% of the time)
Select '4' = If this has happened A LOT (26%-49% of the time)
Select '5' = If this has happened MOST OF THE TIME (50%-70% of the time)
Select '6' = If this has happened ALMOST ALL THE TIME (more than 70% of the time)"

Summary Data

File Name: sre_summary*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed
sreScorePastYear The sum of all past year responses q1-q18 (Range: 18-108)
sreScoreLifelong The sum of all life responses q1-q18 (Range: 18-108)
sreScoreStressLevel The sum of all stress responses q1-q17 (Range: 17-102)

Raw Data

File Name: sre.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject, group, session With the current subject/groupnumber/session id
build Inquisit version number
q*_response Response given (in assigned values)
Scale: 1-6
q*_latency How much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveyPage with this particular
question (the last time this particular surveyPage was visited)

Parameters

The procedure can be adjusted by setting the following parameters.

NameDescriptionDefault
q15NWord Note by the original scale authors (p.166)
'The actual 'n' word, rather than 'n________' appears in the scale for item 15
was removed for publication by the editors. When reproducing and using this scale,
we caution the reader to use the actual word in this item
because that word appeared in the scale in this study.'
This script uses the substitution by default.
"n_____"