Do You Know Your Enslaved Ancestors (DYKEA)?

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To study how families descendent from U. S. enslaved people pass on stories of their ancestors to succeeding generations, Georgia State University Department of Communication Ph.D. student

Pamela E. Foster, M.S.J., revised the 20-question Do You Know? (DYK?) scale created by Emory University psychologists Robyn Fivush, Ph.D., and Marshall Duke, Ph.D. The revision is the Do You Know Enslaved Ancestors?) (DYKEA?) scale

Please answer the following questions by circling "Y" for "yes" or "N" for "no." Even if you know the information we are asking about, you don't need to write it down.

1. Do you know how a set of your enslaved ancestors met? Y N

2. Do you know where one of your enslaved women ancestors grew up? Y N

3. Do you know where one of your enslaved men ancestors grew up? Y N

4. Do you know where some of your enslaved ancestors’ children grew up? Y N

5. Do you know where some of your enslaved ancestors’ children met their spouses? Y N

6. Do you know where a set of your enslaved ancestors were married? Y N

7. Do you know what went on when you were being born? Y N

8. Do you know the source of your name? Y N

9. Do you know some things about what happened when your brothers or sisters were being born? Y N

10. Do you know which person in your family you look most like? Y N

11. Do you know which person in the family you act most like? Y N

12. Do you know some of the illnesses and injuries that any of your enslaved ancestors experienced when they were younger? Y N

13. Do you know some of the lessons that any of your enslaved ancestors learned from good or bad experiences? Y N

14. Do you know some things that happened to any of your ancestors when they were in school? Y N

15. Do you know the national background of your family (such as Senegalese, English, Gambian, German, Ghanaian, Russian, Angolan, etc.)? Y N

16. Do you know some of the jobs that any of your enslaved ancestors had when they were young? Y N

17. Do you know some awards that any of your ancestors received when they were young? Y N

18. Do you know the names of the schools that any of your women ancestors went to? Y N

19. Do you know the names of the schools that any of your men ancestors went to? Y N

20. Do you know about a relative whose face "froze" in a grumpy position because he or she did not smile enough? Y N

ORIGINAL Source: Duke, M.P., Lazarus, A., & Fivush, R. (2008). Knowledge of family history as a clinically useful index of psychological well-being and prognosis: A brief report. Psychotherapy Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 45, 268-272. REVISION Source: Foster, Pamela E. (2018).