Measuring Neoliberalism: Development and Initial Validation of a Scale of Anti-Neoliberal Attitudes

Grzanka, Patrick R.; Miles, Joseph R.; Spengler, Elliot S.; Arnett, James E.; Pruett, Jessica

doi:10.1007/s11211-019-00339-3

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“…We used the criteria laid out by Reise, Scheines, Widaman, and Haviland (2013) and Reise, Bonifay, and Haviland (2013) to determine the dimensionality and reliability of the bifactor scale. We also consulted previous reports of bifactor modeling (Grzanka, Miles, Spengler, Arnett, & Pruett, 2020; Keum et al, 2018; McDermott et al, 2017). First, we assessed reliability with omega (ω) and omega hierarchical (ω H ), which are used when items have different common variance sources.…”

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Development and initial validation of the Queer People of Color Identity Affirmation Scale.

Ghabrial¹,

Andersen²

2021

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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Despite growing literature on sexual minority (SM; e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, asexual) people of Color (PoC), there is a dearth of research examining positive aspects of SM-PoC identity. This article presents the development and initial validation of the Queer People of Color Identity Affirmation Scale (QPIAS). First, items were developed through interviews with SM-PoC (N ϭ 10) and then pilot-tested (N ϭ 293). We then administered the scale to a second sample of SM-PoC (N ϭ 703), which was randomly divided for exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The final QPIAS consists of 12 items and 2 subscales: Identity-Based Growth and Identity Cohesion. Participant performance on the final QPIAS was compared to other constructs of identity and psychosocial wellbeing to assess convergent validity. As predicted, the QPIAS was significantly positively associated with resilience, empowerment, sexual identity affirmation, and ethnoracial identity affirmation, and negatively associated with depression and sexual and ethnoracial identity conflict. Results also suggest that this scale may be useful in predicting resilience and empowerment beyond existing measures of sexual and ethnoracial identity affirmation. Use of this scale may provide new information on factors contributing to wellbeing in this population and be a beneficial tool in multiculturally competent assessment. Public Significance StatementThis study presents the Queer People of Color Identity Affirmation Scale, which assesses the extent to which respondents experience their intersecting racial and sexual identity categories as a source of empowerment and resilience. Use of this scale may enable researchers, clinicians, and service providers to examine how this construct contributes to wellbeing in this population.

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Development and initial validation of the Queer People of Color Identity Affirmation Scale.

Ghabrial¹,

Andersen²

2021

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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“…Thus, neoliberalism 3 has yielded far fewer 3 Neoliberalism, including recent attempts by psychologists to develop a psychological account of it (Bettache & Chiu, 2019), are relevant and beyond the scope of this paper. Important to note, however, is that advocates of neoliberal policies do not identify themselves as "neoliberal"; instead, the terms neoliberal and neoliberalism are used primarily as forms of critique from the Left (see Grzanka et al, 2020). PSYCHOLOGY OF PRECARITY protections for people across diverse life spaces, hence evoking precarity that goes well beyond the world of work and financial stability (Brown, 2015).…”

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The Psychology of Precarity: A Critical Framework

Blustein,

Grzanka,

Gordon

et al. 2024

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This article presents the rationale and a new critical framework for precarity, which reflects a psychosocial concept that links structural inequities with experiences of alienation, anomie, and uncertainty. Emerging from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, political science, and psychology, the concept of precarity provides a conceptual scaffolding for understanding the complex causes of precarious life circumstances while also seeking to identify how people react, adapt, and resist the forces that evoke such tenuous psychosocial experiences. We present a critical conceptual framework as a non-linear heuristic that serves to identify and organize relevant elements of precarity in a presumably infinite number of contexts and applications. The framework identifies socio-political-economic contexts, material conditions, and psychological experiences as key elements of precarity. Another essential aspect of this framework is the delineation of interrelated and non-linear responses to precarity which include resistance, adaptation, and resignation. The article then summarizes selected implications of precarity for psychological interventions, vocational and organizational psychology, and explorations and advocacy about race, gender, and other systems of inequality. Future research directions, including optimal methodologies to study precarity, conclude the article.

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“…The psychological dimensions of neoliberalism—in particular, the individual beliefs and values that reflect and sustain it—have recently become a focus of psychological study (Bettache & Chiu, 2019). At the center of neoliberal subjectivity are descriptive and prescriptive equity (Bay-Cheng et al, 2015; Beattie et al, 2019; Grzanka et al, 2020). G. Adams and colleagues (2019) argued that among other psychological effects, neoliberalism enforces an “individualist-entrepreneurial” understanding of the self.…”

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Neoliberalism and the Ideological Construction of Equity Beliefs

Knowles

2022

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Researchers across disciplines, including psychology, have sought to understand how people evaluate the fairness of resource distributions. Equity, defined as proportionality of rewards to merit, has dominated the conceptualization of distributive justice in psychology; some scholars have cast it as the primary basis on which distributive decisions are made. The present article acts as a corrective to this disproportionate emphasis on equity. Drawing on findings from different subfields, we argue that people possess a range of beliefs about how valued resources should be allocated—beliefs that vary systematically across developmental stages, relationship types, and societies. By reinvigorating notions of distributive justice put forth by the field’s pioneers, we further argue that prescriptive beliefs concerning resource allocation are ideological formations embedded in socioeconomic and historical contexts. Fairness beliefs at the micro level are thus shaped by those beliefs’ macro-level instantiations. In a novel investigation of this process, we consider neoliberalism, the globally dominant socioeconomic model of the past 40 years. Using data from more than 160 countries, we uncover evidence that neoliberal economic structures shape equity-based distributive beliefs at the individual level. We conclude by advocating an integrative approach to the study of distributive justice that bridges micro- and macro-level analyses.

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Measuring Neoliberalism: Development and Initial Validation of a Scale of Anti-Neoliberal Attitudes

Cited by 11 publications

References 109 publications

Development and initial validation of the Queer People of Color Identity Affirmation Scale.

Development and initial validation of the Queer People of Color Identity Affirmation Scale.

The Psychology of Precarity: A Critical Framework

Neoliberalism and the Ideological Construction of Equity Beliefs

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