African-Americans and African-English-Speaking West Indians: Relationships Between Racial Identity Attitudes, Self-Attitudes, Self-Esteem, Skin Color Perceptions and Sex-Role Attitudes

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dc.contributor.advisorFretz, Bruce
dc.contributor.authorMurray-Carney, Melita Josephine
dc.contributor.departmentPsychology
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository and the University of Maryland
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-01T17:03:02Z
dc.date.available2021-02-01T17:03:02Z
dc.date.issued1994
dc.description.abstractThis study examined the relationship of racial identity attitudes to skin color perceptions, sex-role attitudes and self-esteem among 106 African-Americans and 102 African-English speaking West Indians. Skin color perceptions were measured by Helms and Carter's (in press) skin color scale and the present author's (1992) skin color chart. Sex-role attitudes were measured by the Bem's Sex-role Inventory and self-esteem by the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale respectively. It was hypothesized that differentially statistically significant relationships would be found among racial identity attitudes, skin color perceptions, sex-role attitudes and self-esteem for African-Americans and African-West Indians . For African-Americans , the results indicated racial identity was associated with self-esteem but was not related to skin color perceptions or sex-role attitudes when gender was controlled. For African-English speaking West Indians, racial identity was associated with sex-role attitudes but was not related to either skin color perceptions or self esteem. Additional exploratory results pointed to a need to include other variables such as socioeconomic status and education in understanding more about racial identity attitudes of African-Americans and African-English speaking West Indians. Research and counseling implications for African-Americans and African-English speaking West Indians are discussed.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/fjaz-h8az
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26695
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Americans Attitudesen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Americans Race identityen_US
dc.subjectBlacks West Indies Attitudesen_US
dc.subjectBlacks Race identity West Indiesen_US
dc.subjectGender identity United Statesen_US
dc.subjectGender identity West Indiesen_US
dc.subjectBlacks Attitudesen_US
dc.subjectBlacks Race identityen_US
dc.subjectGender identityen_US
dc.subjectUnited Statesen_US
dc.subjectWest Indiesen_US
dc.subjectAcademic thesesen_US
dc.titleAfrican-Americans and African-English-Speaking West Indians: Relationships Between Racial Identity Attitudes, Self-Attitudes, Self-Esteem, Skin Color Perceptions and Sex-Role Attitudesen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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