THE REVERSE SOCIAL DISTANCE SCALE

A ''reverse'' Social Distance Scale was created by modifying Bogardus' s Social Distance Scale, to measure minority groups' perceptions of th e social distance established by the majority group between itself and minority groups. The Reverse Social Distance Scale (Guttman's coeffic ient of reproduciblity = 0.99) differentiated between the African Amer ican students and the other two groups of minority students in the pre sent sample-Hispanic students and Others-but did not differentiate bet ween the latter two groups. The relationships between the participants ' choices of self-identification terms and their scores on the Reverse Social Distance Scale were varied.