Emerging Adult East Asian Women Witnessing Racism Events: To Act or Not to Act

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dc.contributor.advisorHill, Clara Een_US
dc.contributor.authorThai, Christina Jeanen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-09T05:30:48Z
dc.date.available2020-10-09T05:30:48Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractRacial discrimination acts continue to occur and impact the lives of people of color. One mechanism that may help in halting discriminatory behavior is bystander intervention. While there have been studies on bystander intervention during discriminatory events, there is little research on how other people of color intervene during these events. This present study focuses on bystander interventions by emerging adult East Asian American women. As Asian Americans, they are often perceived as more privileged than other people of color and as women they been socialized to “keep their head down.” This present study utilized a qualitative methodology to investigate how they determine whether or not to intervene when they witnessed racism events. Our results showed that participants had three response types: minimized response/did not react, nonaggressive challenged perpetrator, and supported the target. Some of our most interesting findings were that participants voiced that they were motivated to help because of their relationship with the target and/or perpetrator and were inhibited by their fear of retaliation, being unsure of how to respond, and difficulty determining if an event was racist.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/448q-hd8c
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26560
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAsian Americanen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInterventionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledQualitativeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRacismen_US
dc.titleEmerging Adult East Asian Women Witnessing Racism Events: To Act or Not to Acten_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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