White Racial Identity Statuses and NEO Personality Constructs: An Exploratory Analysis
✍ Scribed by Timothy J. Silvestri; Tina Q. Richardson
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1556-6678
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✦ Synopsis
This study investigated the relationship between White racial identity development as proposed by J. E. Helms (1995) and the personality constructs Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. Participants were 105 White college students (55 women and 50 men) who were administered the White Racial Identity Attitude Scale (J. E. Helms & R. T. Carter, 1993), the NEO Five‐Factor Inventory (P. T. Costa & R. R. McCrae, 1992) and the New Racism Scale (C. K Jacobson, 1985). Results indicated that White racial identity was differentially related to several personality constructs and aversive racism. Implications for future White racial identity research are discussed.