Promoting resilience in urban African American adolescents: Racial socialization and identity as protective factors

Miller, David B.; MacIntosh, Randall

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“…In   contrast, racial identity is a process of identifying with individuals based on shared ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Racial identity appears quite crucial during adolescence as adolescents attempt to understand and find their place in society (Engler, 2006;Miller &MacIntosh, 2006).…”

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“…Further, Miller and MacIntosh (2006) found that a positive racial identity served as a buffer against daily hassles that the students faced in school. In other words, a strong sense of racial identity may have helped these adolescents not allow perceived obstacles to stand in their way of academic achievement.…”

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Resilience Among American Indian Adolescents: Investigation Into the Role of Culture

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2011

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2011

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“…Past research typically suggests that being embedded in, and feeling a part of, a minority group is protective. Specifically, multiple studies have found that Black Americans who are embraced by their group, and identify with them are happier and healthier (see Branscombe, Schmitt, & Harvey, 1999;Miller & MacIntosh, 1999). Here, we might expect something similar for those who are overweight -positive contact should be protective, and negative contact damaging.…”

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An empirical investigation of gender, sexual attitudes, weight bias and body image

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An empirical investigation of gender, sexual attitudes, weight bias and body image 2 ABSTRACT This thesis will fill gaps in research exploring gender, weight bias, and body image. It investigates the potential consequences of having a negative body image (such as its association with sexual functioning), and how body image and attraction to different body types differ depending on gender and feminist identification. It also investigates how contact with overweight people 1 is related to weight bias. Traditionally, most body image research has focused on women,given that women typically report worse body image than men, and face substantive societal pressure to look a certain way (Feingold & Mazzella, 1998). However, increasingly research is demonstrating that men also feel appearance-related societal pressure and suffer from marked body image issues (Davison & McCabe, 2005). Consequently, in this thesis both female and male perspectives are involved throughout.In Chapters 1 and 3 I describe the literature that informed my research. Specifically, inChapter 1 I discuss research on body image, including outlining which factors predict having a negative body image, what the consequences of having a poor body image are, and gender differences associated with body image. In Chapter 3, I describe research on anti-fat prejudice, including interventions to reduce negative attitudes towards those who are overweight. In Chapter 2, I investigate how thinking negatively about one's body is associated with sexual problems.Female and male participants (N=519) completed questionnaires examining various aspects of sexual problems, as well as drive for thinness and drive for muscularity. Results indicated that for men as well as women, drive for thinness rather than drive for muscularity consistently predicted sexual dysfunction. This study provides the first evidence that drive for thinness can be associated with negative sexual experiences for men as well as women.In Chapter 4 I shift my focus to examine which factors might predict people finding a range of different body types attractive, and conversely, what might predict the extent to which people impose the thin ideal onto others. Heterosexual female and male participants (N=359) rated how attractive they found a variety of male and female figures. Participants also completed a feminist identity questionnaire. Results demonstrated that men who identified as feminists were more likely to report being attracted to a larger female figure, while feminist identification was unrelated to what size figure women found attractive. In line with past research, women rated the "most attractive" female figure as being thinner than that preferred by men. This study demonstrates that male feminism may have an indirect positive effect on women by relaxing men's standards for female beauty.1 In the interest of brevity, the word 'overweight' is used to encompass both overweight and obese people An empirical investigation of gender, sexual attitudes, weight bias and body image 3In Chapter 5 I...

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“…As a result, their college success is almost predetermined by the availability or lack of availability of academic resources prior to college and access to institutional support (O 'Connor, 2002). In addition, the need for further examination of the resilience of racial minorities is acknowledged by researchers (Barbaran, 1993;Miller, 1999;Miller & MacIntosh, 1999;Utsey, Bolden, Lanier, & Williams, 2007).…”

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“…American resilience (Barbarin, 1993;Miller, 1999;Miller & MacIntosh, 1999;Utsey, Bolden, Lanier, & Williams, 2007;Brown, 2008) …”

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Counterstories : educational resilence of adult African American women attending an urban predominantly White university.

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Promoting resilience in urban African American adolescents: Racial socialization and identity as protective factors

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Resilience Among American Indian Adolescents: Investigation Into the Role of Culture

Resilience Among American Indian Adolescents: Investigation Into the Role of Culture

An empirical investigation of gender, sexual attitudes, weight bias and body image

Counterstories : educational resilence of adult African American women attending an urban predominantly White university.

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