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Identifier	Thesis 2042
Author	Nonterah, Camilla W.
Title	Racial misidentification and psychopathology among people of African descent : is there a relationship?
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2009
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	Racial identity has been associated with various facets of the lives of Blacks. Previous studies have associated African Americans’ racial identity with the development of self-esteem, psychopathology and academic achievement amongst other variables. The purpose of the present study was to examine two theories developed to examine racial identity in Blacks; Cross’ (1971, 1978) model and Baldwin’s (1981, 1984) theory. In addition, this study explored Cultural differences between Continental Africans, African Americans and African Caribbean people. There were 221 respondents between the ages of 16-64 comprising of Continental Africans, African Americans and African Caribbean people. They were administered tests such as the Racial Identity Attitude Scale, the African Self-Consciousness Scale, Beck’s Hopelessness Scale, Rosenberg’s Self Esteem Scale, the Symptom Checklist-90 Revised and demographic data. The results indicated a significant correlation coefficient between psychopathology and the stages of racial identity; Preencounter, Encounter and Immersion-emersion. Internalization attitudes were associated with hopelessness. Lower levels of African Self-Consciousness were also significantly related to anxiety, hostility and phobic anxiety amongst all groups. Factor analysis of the ASC yielded two factors: value for Africentric beliefs and value for Group identification. There was a negative significant relationship between Group identification and psychopathology. Africentric values were also positively related to psychopathology. Cultural differences between the groups indicated that Africans had more Encounter and Immersion-Emersions attitudes as compared to the other two groups. Furthermore, African Americans had the highest levels of African Self-Consciousness. Implications from these findings suggest that racial identity plays an important role in the mental health of people of African descent.
Subject	Blacks -- Race identity -- United States Blacks -- United States -- Attitudes Blacks -- United States -- Psychology
Department	Department of Psychology
Advisor	Mate-Kole, C. Charles
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734370
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