ABSTRACT
The Cultural Misorientation Scale (CMS) subscales have reasonably good common variance to function as a multidimensional measure of the Cultural Misorientation construct. In order to measure and assess the Cultural Misorientation construct, the CMS was developed. This condition of cultural reality based disorder results from the protracted, institutionalized superimposition of European culture/the European worldview on the African community in America. This is a process generally categorized as cultural oppression, and in the specific case of European cultural oppression of Africans in America. It produces the collective psychological disorder of European cultural "misidentification" among Africans, or stated more directly, the "internalization of the European worldview" among Africans. Robert L. Williams found both convergent and divergent validity support for the CMS. Therefore, CMS scores should be negatively correlated with African Self-Consciousness Scale scores since they are purported to measure oppositional forces or strivings in the black personality.
