Is the negro happy?

Correlates of avowed happiness.

“…Another early study, by Beckham (1929), involved only Negro subjects. Several professional groups were included, the largest being composed of students and laborers.…”

Health Literacy and Happiness: A Community-based Study

“…Still, there is little research on the association between happiness and literacy. A search in PsycINFO 1 using keywords ''happiness'' and ''literacy'' produced only five citations (Beckham 1929;Price 2000;Kirkcaldy et al 2004;Lysaker et al 2004;Mindes and Kronenberg 2005), and only one of them actually explored the association between the two constructs. Outside of psychology, related issues have been explored by sociologists (Mwansa 1995) and gerontologists (Moon and Mikami 2007).…”

Albert Sidney Beckham: The First African American School Psychologist

“…While there, he was the recipient of the prestigious Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship (1928-1929Rose et al, 1993). The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fellowship was instrumental in the establishment and maintenance of child development research from its inception in 1918 through the 1940s (see Fosdick, 1989;Lomax, 1977 for a complete history).…”

“…Whereas he never held a formal academic position after completing his doctoral studies or a position at a major research institution at any point during his career, Beckham was still a prolific researcher. During his tenure in the Chicago Public Schools he published at least 21 articles (see Appendix for a list of his publications), on topics ranging from the effect of counselling on high school students (Beckham, 1958) to life satisfaction (Beckham, 1929). A review of these articles reveals an individual with varied research interests and astute ability as a school-based researcher.…”