The authors investigated ethnicity, self‐construal, and distress among African American and Asian American college students. African American students expressed more salient independent self‐construals, whereas Asian American students expressed more salient interdependent self‐construals. As hypothe
The Relationship Between Racial Identity Cluster Profiles and Psychological Distress Among African American College Students
✍ Scribed by Helen A. Neville; Roderick L. Lilly
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 782 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0883-8534
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✦ Synopsis
One hundred eighty‐two African American college students completed the Racial Identity Attitudes Scale. Results from the multivariate categorization scheme revealed 5 types of empirically derived racial identity attitude profiles: “dissonance internalization” (34%), “committed internalization” (30%), “cngaged internalization” (21%), “undifferentiated racial identity” (8%), and “dormant racial identity” (7%). The profiles significantly differed on Brief Symptom Inventory subscale scores.
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