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Identifier	Thesis 1680
Author	Croasdale, Angelique D.
Title	African self-consciousness, racial identity development and psychological well-being among African American drug users
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2003
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	It is estimated that approximately 5.3 million persons in the United States are substance abusers. The devastating consequences of substance abuse includes high rates of criminal activities, incarceration, high rates of student dropout, high prevalence of HIV and AIDS, low birth weight infant, unemployment and large numbers of incarceration among African American men. Although the cause of substance abuse among African Americans is unclear, some studies suggested that this might be related to underlying problems in racial identity development. To date, only a handful of studies have examined the relationship between racial identity development and psychological well-being among African American drug users. The purpose of the present study is twofold. First, to examine differences in racial identity development between African American non-drug users and drug users. Second, to examine the relationships between racial identity development and psychopathology among African American drug abusers. Thirty-eight African American drug users, and 37 healthy controls were recruited. They were administered tests assessing psychopathological symptoms such as depression and anxiety, self- esteem and measures of Black racial identity. The results revealed significant differences between drug users and non-drug users on all the psychopathology scales. Drug users obtained significantly higher scores on the Preencounter and Immersion phases of the racial identity scale. Among the drug users, there was a significant positive correlation between self- esteem and Preencounter, and a significant negative correlation between Encounter and Hopelessness. Further correlations revealed significant positive relationships between self esteem and Encounter. There were negative correlations between Encounter and Somatization, and between Encounter and Anxiety. Among non-drug users, there were significant relationships between Internalization and Paranoid Ideation. The results provide some understanding about the underlying problems such as racial identity confusion and drug abuse among African American users. Implications of the findings are discussed.
Subject	Blacks -- Race identity African Americans -- Psychology
Department	Department of Psychology
Advisor	Mate-Kole, C. Charles
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	52534466
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