Internalized anti-Semitism describes the negative thoughts and feelings a Jewish person might have about his or her own Jewishness and about Jewish people in general. This dissertation focused on the development and validation of the Murphy Internalized Anti-Semitism (MIAS) Scale, a self-report scale that measures internalized anti-Semitism.;The preliminary scale was administered to 222 Jewish adults, ranging from 19 to 86 years of age. Item analyses and internal reliability analyses were conducted on the preliminary scale items, which led to a reduction in the number of items from 78 to 72. Principal components analyses were then conducted on the final 72 scale items to explore the scale's underlying factors. Finally, construct validity of the scale was assessed by correlating the MIAS Scale with three other measures.;Reliability analyses of the individual items and the total scale demonstrated the items to have strong item-total scale correlations, and revealed that the total scale had high internal consistency reliability. Principal components analysis led to the extraction and interpretation of five underlying factors, which were subsequently labeled: Personal, Social and Political, Relationships, Stereotypes, and Other. The MIAS Scale also demonstrated strong construct validity, as evidenced by significant negative correlations with measures of strength of Jewish identity, positive feelings about one's Jewish group membership, and degree of religious practice. Finally, suggestions for future research and implications of the current findings were also discussed.
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