There is no consensus on an optimal measure of perceived discrimination. A recent review evaluated 34 different measures of perceived discrimination (Kressin et al. 2008), but the current conceptualization and assessment of discrimination is limited. Recent studies of perceived discrimination and health tend to capture two domains of stressors, daily hassles and life events. The most widely used measure in recent studies reviewed is the Everyday Discrimination Scale (Williams et al. 1997). The scale has several attractive features, including its brevity, good psychometric properties (Krieger et al. 2005), and its use in multiple racial/ethnic populations in the U.S. and its increasing use in international contexts such as South Africa (Williams et al. 2008). The scale attempts to capture aspects of interpersonal discrimination that are chronic or episodic but generally minor, somewhat analogous to the assessment of daily hassles in the stress literature. A few studies use it in conjunction with other indicators of discrimination but it is often used as the only measure of discrimination. Another very useful approach to capturing ongoing discrimination is the dairy approach of Brondolo and
