The Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM): Psychometric Review and Further Validity Testing

By J. Ponterotto, Denise Gretchen, S. Utsey, Thomas I. Stracuzzi, Robert Saya. 2003

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Critical Issues in the Measurement of Ethnic and Racial Identity: A Referendum on the State of the Field (2007, methodology): “Some researchers have used an exploratory factor analysis with principal axis extraction on all 20 items (Phinney, 1992; Ponterotto et al., 2003; Worrell, 2000), whereas still other researchers have used a maximum likelihood extraction that only included the 14 items from the Ethnic Identity Scale (”
The Relationship of Language Brokering to Ethnic Identity for Latino Early Adolescents (2005, methodology): “Only the Ethnic Identity scale was included to assess ethnic identity, as advised by Phinney (2001).”
Assessing the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure for Measurement Equivalence Across Racial and Ethnic Groups (2007, methodology): “The simple readability and overall compactness of the MEIM make it very convenient to administer and previous studies have shown scores on it to be marginally to acceptably reliable (alphas ranging from .71 to .92) and valid (see Ponterotto et al., 2003, for a recent review).”