Over the last couple of years, the topic of White fragility has garnered a considerable degree of attention. White fragility is considered a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress can become intolerable and trigger a range of emotional and behavioral reactions intended to restore a sense of racial comfort (DiAngelo, White fragility: Why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism, 2018, Beacon Press). In effort to measure the expression of White fragility, we developed and evaluated the psychometric properties of the 21-item White Fragility Scale (WFS). Data consisted of two independent samples of White participants recruited from M-Turk (327) and a Midwest University's Psychpool (234). Results from exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses provided evidence for a bifactor model consisting of one general White fragility factor and three specific factors of Emotional Defensiveness, Accommodation of Safety, and Exceptionism. Ancillary bifactor indices supported treating the WFS as a unidimensional measure of White fragility yet also revealed meaningful utility of the Accommodation of Safety subscale. Concurrent validity evidence for the WFS was established through significant associations with modern racism, general and specific dimensions of colorblind racial attitudes, and social dominance orientation. In addition, nonsignificant, near-zero correlations with social desirability provided support for divergent validity. Recommendations for future research involving the WFS are provided as well as practical implications for professionals whose work requires a certain degree of racial stamina. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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白色脆弱性量表的开发和初步验证。

在过去的几年里，白人脆弱性的话题引起了相当程度的关注。白人脆弱被认为是一种状态，在这种状态下，即使是最少量的种族压力也会变得无法忍受，并引发一系列旨在恢复种族舒适感的情绪和行为反应（DiAngelo，白人脆弱：为什么白人很难说话关于种族主义，2018 年，Beacon Press）。为了衡量白人脆弱性的表达，我们开发并评估了 21 项白人脆弱性量表 (WFS) 的心理测量特性。数据包括从 M-Turk (327) 和中西部大学的 Psychpool (234) 招募的白人参与者的两个独立样本。探索性和验证性因素分析的结果为双因素模型提供了证据，该模型由一个一般的怀特脆弱性因素和三个特定的情绪防御、安全适应和例外主义因素组成。辅助双因子指数支持将 WFS 视为白人脆弱性的一维衡量标准，但也揭示了安全调节分量表的有意义的效用。WFS 的并发有效性证据是通过与现代种族主义、色盲种族态度的一般和特定维度以及社会支配取向的重要关联而建立的。此外，与社会期望的不显着、接近零的相关性为发散效度提供了支持。提供了涉及 WFS 的未来研究的建议以及对工作需要一定程度的种族耐力的专业人员的实际影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。