Strengthening social and emotional wellbeing of Australian Aboriginal people

In Australia, there is little empirical research of the racial identity of Indigenous children and youth as the majority of the current literature focuses on adults. Furthermore, there are no instruments developed with cultural appropriateness when exploring the identity and self-esteem of the Australian Aboriginal population, especially children. The IRISE_C (Racial Identity and Self-Esteem of children) inventory was developed to explore the elements of racial identity and self-esteem of urban, rural and regional Aboriginal children. This paper describes the development and validation of the IRISE_C instrument with over 250 Aboriginal children aged 8 to 12 years.

Output(s)

Development and validation of the Australian Aboriginal racial identity and self-esteem survey for 8-12 year old children (IRISE_C)

Type

Journal article

Authors

CS Kickett-Tucker, D. Christensen, D. Lawrence, SR Zubrick, DJ Johnson & F. Stanley

Publisher

International Journal for Equity in Health

Publication date

2015

Rights notice

© 2015 Kickett-Tucker et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to
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s12939-015-0234-3.pdf

Link

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-015-0234-3

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Project contact(s)

Professor Cheryl Kickett-Tucker

Cheryl.Kickett-Tucker@curtin.edu.au

Researcher(s)

Professor Cheryl Kickett-Tucker

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Topic(s)

Closing the Gap focus

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Indigenous involvement

Indigenous involvement notes

Professor Cheryl Kickett-Tucker AM is a Wadjuk Noongar Aboriginal from Western Australia. She is currently a research Fellow at Curtin University and the Founding Director of Pindi Pindi Pty Ltd- Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Wellbeing.

A pilot of the IRISE C instrument was combined with individual interviews and was undertaken with 35 urban Aboriginal children aged 8–12 years. An exploratory factor analysis was performed to refine the survey and reduce redundant items in readiness for the main study. In the main study, the IRISE C was employed to 229 Aboriginal children aged 6–13 years across three sites (rural, regional and urban) in Western Australia. The IRISE_C is a paper survey which was verbally administered one on one to school children by a trained, local Aboriginal Community Research Assistant (ACRA). Local Aboriginal protocols were observed when employing the IRISE_C instrument. More specifically, being respectful of each individual Aboriginal child and showing that the interviewer is genuine (using appropriate verbal and non-verbal language) are key ingredients in growing rapport and eventually a ‘working relationship’ with Aboriginal children. See page 12 for detailed acknowledgements.

Strengthening social and emotional wellbeing of Australian Aboriginal people

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