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- Title
Racial Identity Attitudes and Psychological Functioning.
- Authors
Carter, Robert T.
- Abstract
The article determines whether racial identity attitudes were differentially related to psychological functioning measured as self-reported psychological symptoms. It could be argued that the measure used may not be sensitive enough to truly capture complex psychological symptoms. Therefore, it is not completely clear whether the items are truly measuring psychological functioning. Consequently, this study needs to be replicated with more sensitive measures of psychological functioning in order to determine the ac- curacy of its findings. The differential relations found in the current study, nonetheless, suggest that perhaps mental health researchers. might investigate the influence and role of within-group psychological variables such as racial identity in their efforts to understand the factors that contribute to psychological adaptations for African Americans. Perhaps the use of within-group psychological variables will move the mental health literature pertaining to African Americans from contradiction and confusion to a true understanding of African Americans' psychological functioning.
- Publication
Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development, 1991, Vol 19, Issue 3, p105
- ISSN
0883-8534
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1002/j.2161-1912.1991.tb00547.x