THE ESTEEM OF THE BLACK URBAN PRESCHOOLER'S DEVELOPING SELF-CONCEPT OF WORTH AND RACE.
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Title
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THE ESTEEM OF THE BLACK URBAN PRESCHOOLER'S DEVELOPING SELF-CONCEPT OF WORTH AND RACE.
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Identifier
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AAI8312346
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identifier
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8312346
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Creator
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GARNER, MARY ELIZABETH MCKAY.
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Contributor
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Anderson Franklin
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Date
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1983
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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Using a sample of Black, urban preschoolers and their mothers, we looked at the relationship between maternal child rearing and racial development attitudes and practices and the esteem of their preschoolers' Self-Concepts of Worth and Race. We also looked at the relationship between the esteem of Worth and Race.;Our final sample was twenty-four preschoolers and their mothers. The preschoolers were verbally Bright Average or Very Superior children who also scored congruently on the non-verbal and the verbal assessments of esteem of Worth. These preschoolers were also assessed on their esteem of Self-Concept of Race, using a doll play technique of Porter (1971).;The maternal child rearing attitudes and practices were assessed using a brief questionnaire (PARI) and an indepth interview; while the racial development attitudes and practices were assessed using only an interview.;The PARI did not support our hypotheses of a positive relationship between child rearing attitudes and practices and esteem of Worth. However, our in-depth interview overwhelmingly supported not only our hypotheses concerning child rearing but racial development as well. In summary, positive maternal attitudes and practices went with positive esteem of Worth and Race of the preschoolers and negative maternal attitudes went with negative esteem of Worth and Race of the Preschoolers.;We found no relationship between esteem of Worth and Race, supporting our hypothesis that each self-concept represents a separate, subordinate dimension of an algebraic, overall self-concept.;The shade of skin color of our preschoolers appeared to significantly influence the esteem of their Self-Concepts of Race, with the lighter the shade skin color, the more negative the esteem of Race. We concluded a relationship of skin color, color meaning in American society and racial self-concept development had grave, negative implications for Black children living in a racist White majority society.;The influence of paternal status on the attitudes and practices of the mothers and on the esteem of the preschoolers' Self-Concepts of Worth was an important finding. Here we found significantly more fathers present in families of preschoolers with highly than poorly esteemed Self-Concepts of Worth. We also found that in families where father was absent, the child rearing and racial attitudes and practices of the mothers were significantly more negative than the mothers in families where the father was present.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
