Constructs of Interest

Running head: CONSTRUCTS OF INTEREST
CONSTRUCTS OF INTEREST
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Keywords – Constructs of interest, Racism, Colorism, Skin Colour, discrimination, Afro-
textured hair, Impostor Syndrome/Impostorism, Emotional effects, Black women, Workplace,
Identity, Construct Measurement, Scales of measurement, ordinal, Likert scale.
Scales of measurement
This refers to the ways in which variables are defined and categorized. Each scale of
measurement has specific properties, which defines how appropriate the use of a particular
statistical analysis is. Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio are the four scales of measurement.
Statistical significance and the null hypothesis
The probability value below which the null hypothesis is rejected is called the α level or
simply α (Johnson, 2011). This is known as the significance level. The rejection of the null
hypothesis means that the outcome is said to be statistically significant.
Correlation
This is a statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two or more variables
fluctuate together (Johnson, 2011). A positive correlation indicates the increase or decrease in
the variables, whereas a negative correlation indicates how the increase in one variable is related
to the decrease in another.
Regression
This is a statistical measure that determines the strength of the relationship between one
dependent or fixed variable and a series of independent variables (Johnson, 2011). There are two
major types of regression, namely, linear regression and multiple linear regression (Johnson,
2011). Linear regression uses one independent variable and multiple regression uses two or more

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independent variables to predict the outcome of the dependent variable depicted by Y. Another
type of regression is the multivariate regression where two or more independent variables are
analyzed to determine multiple outcomes for the dependent variables.
Constructs of interest.
The following are the constructs that I am considering to assess in my dissertation.
1. Perception of Colorism – Colorism is defined as the form of prejudice of discrimination
based on skin color and shade of a person or a group of people usually from the same
racial descent (Wilder & Cain, 2011). In the current context of the study, colorism is
identified as a construct in order to aid the study of its emotional effects on the Black
Women in Workplace. Research indicates that the problem of occupational
discrimination based on colorism is significantly high, however understudied (Marira &
Mitra, 2013). Colorism in workplace is responsible for a multitude of emotional
influences ranging from interpersonal workplace hostility to personal issues with
depression and anxiety, especially prevalent due to the persistent discrimination in
processes of hiring and employment based on skin tone (Zschirnt & Ruedin, 2016).
2. Perception of Discrimination based on hair texture – In this aspect, the discrimination
that occurs is mostly based on the varied textures of hair (Robinson, 2011) that is
prevalent among the African American women, most commonly known as Afro-Textured
hair (Miller, 2016). Afro-Textured hair is considered a racial identity for black
individuals, especially women. While there is no formal name for this construct, the
effects of discrimination of Black women in workplace based on their hair texture has
been indicated to negatively impact the psychological and productive wellbeing of the
concerned people (Rosette & Dumas, 2007).