The reverse social distance scale.

Abstract

A "reverse" Social Distance Scale was created by modifying Bogardus's Social Distance Scale, to measure minority groups' perceptions of the social distance established by the majority group between itself and minority groups. The Reverse Social Distance Scale (Guttman's coefficient of reproducibility = 0.99) differentiated between the African American students and the other two groups of minority students in the present sample--Hispanic students and Others--but did not differentiate between the latter two groups. The relationships between the participants' choices of self-identification terms and their scores on the Reverse Social Distance Scale were varied.