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Cultural identity refers to the sense a person has of belonging to and identifying with one or more cultural communities as well as to knowledge of one's own cultural values. Numerous instruments have been developed over the years to assess ethnic‐specific forms of identity, such as the Cross Racial Identity Scale (Cross & Vandiver, 2001) to measure Black American ethnic identity, and the Suinn‐Lew Asian Self‐Identity Acculturation Scale (Suinn, Rickard‐Figueroa, Lew, & Vigil, 1987). More generalizable scales also have been developed that allow respondents to identify their primary culture and evaluate the strength of their participation in it. Examples include the Multi‐Index Ethnocultural Identity Scale (MEIS; Yamada, 1998), the Ethnic Identity Scale (EIS; Umaña‐Taylor, Yazedijian, & Bámaca‐Gómez, 2004), and the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure‐Revised (MEIM‐R; Phinney, 1992; Phinney & Ong, 2007), which is described below.