Scoring the Abridged Version of the GEQ:

1. All items should be coded so that higher values reflect greater orientation to the culture of interest. For example, in some versions of the GEQ, the language items should be reverse-coded. In latter versions of the GEQ, the rating scale was changed so that the language items no longer needed to be reverse coded.

2. In all versions of the GEQ, question 5 (“I am embarrassed/ashamed of ____culture”) should be recoded.

3. Subscores similar to those described in Tsai et al. (2000) can be created if the factor analyses reveal a similar factor structure. To calculate subscores, calculate the mean of the relevant items.

4. Researchers may also create an overall cultural orientation score by calculating the mean of all of the items.