Cultural and Racial Socialization Self-Efficacy Scale
Maria L. Berbery and Karen M. O’Brien
Below is a list of activities related to teaching your child about their culture and race. Please rate how confident you are in your ability to do each of the following items, using the rating scale from 0 to 6.
Not at All Confident Moderately Confident Highly Confident
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
1. Ensure that my child becomes fluent in the language of her/his birth culture.
2. Speak out against any racially or ethnically biased remarks.
3. As a family, engage in social justice activities focused on ending racism.
4. Actively contribute to group activities focused on my child’s heritage.
5. Celebrate the most important holidays of my child’s birth culture with our family.
6. Teach my child how to confront the stereotypes that people may have about her or him due to race.
7. Provide opportunities for my child to develop close friendships with children from his/her birth country.
8. Teach my child about his or her race’s struggle for equality in the United States.
9. Talk about my feelings about racism and discrimination with my child.
10. Talk with my child about our racial differences.
11. Work as a political activist with the goal of eliminating racism.
12. Join my child in learning his/her language of origin.
13. Plan and engage in activities that foster pride in my child about his or her race.
14. Role play techniques with my child to use in the case of racial teasing or racist comments at school.
15. Prepare authentic cuisine from my child’s birth culture on a weekly basis.
16. Live successfully in my child’s birth country for an extended period of time.
17. Talk with my child about her or his experiences of racism and racial discrimination.
18. Teach my child adaptive ways of coping with racism. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Note. This scale can be used for research or clinical purposes without contacting the author.
Items 2, 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, and 18 comprise the Racial Socialization Self-Efficacy Scale.
Items 4, 5, 7, and 13 comprise the Cultural Socialization Self-Efficacy Scale.
Items 1, 12, 15, and 16 comprise the Parental Involvement in Socialization Self-Efficacy Scale.
Items 3, 8, and 11 comprise the Social Justice Self-Efficacy Scale.
Berbery, M.L., & O’Brien, K.M. (2011). Predictors of White adoptive parents’ cultural and racial socialization behaviors with their Asian adopted children. Adoption Quarterly, 14, 284-304.
Not at All Confident Moderately Confident Highly Confident
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
1. Ensure that my child becomes fluent in the language of her/his birth culture.
2. Speak out against any racially or ethnically biased remarks.
3. As a family, engage in social justice activities focused on ending racism.
4. Actively contribute to group activities focused on my child’s heritage.
5. Celebrate the most important holidays of my child’s birth culture with our family.
6. Teach my child how to confront the stereotypes that people may have about her or him due to race.
7. Provide opportunities for my child to develop close friendships with children from his/her birth country.
8. Teach my child about his or her race’s struggle for equality in the United States.
9. Talk about my feelings about racism and discrimination with my child.
10. Talk with my child about our racial differences.
11. Work as a political activist with the goal of eliminating racism.
12. Join my child in learning his/her language of origin.
13. Plan and engage in activities that foster pride in my child about his or her race.
14. Role play techniques with my child to use in the case of racial teasing or racist comments at school.
15. Prepare authentic cuisine from my child’s birth culture on a weekly basis.
16. Live successfully in my child’s birth country for an extended period of time.
17. Talk with my child about her or his experiences of racism and racial discrimination.
18. Teach my child adaptive ways of coping with racism. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Note. This scale can be used for research or clinical purposes without contacting the author.
Items 2, 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, and 18 comprise the Racial Socialization Self-Efficacy Scale.
Items 4, 5, 7, and 13 comprise the Cultural Socialization Self-Efficacy Scale.
Items 1, 12, 15, and 16 comprise the Parental Involvement in Socialization Self-Efficacy Scale.
Items 3, 8, and 11 comprise the Social Justice Self-Efficacy Scale.
Berbery, M.L., & O’Brien, K.M. (2011). Predictors of White adoptive parents’ cultural and racial socialization behaviors with their Asian adopted children. Adoption Quarterly, 14, 284-304.