RACIAL SELF-CONCEPT, GLOBAL SELF-CONCEPT, AND ANXIETY IN LATENCY AGE BLACK FEMALE CHILDREN.
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Title
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RACIAL SELF-CONCEPT, GLOBAL SELF-CONCEPT, AND ANXIETY IN LATENCY AGE BLACK FEMALE CHILDREN.
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Identifier
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AAI8611333
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identifier
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8611333
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Creator
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CALLENDER, MELANIE.
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Contributor
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Vera S. Paster
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Date
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1986
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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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Three hypotheses were tested to determine the relationship between global self-concept, racial self-concept, and anxiety. The sample consisted of thirty-nine black girls ages eight through ten from two urban public schools. Six factors which comprise global self-concept and three factors which comprise racial self-concept were also examined.;Although global self-concept was not significantly correlated with overall racial self-concept, specific aspects of both were significantly correlated. An inverse correlation was found between anxiety and global self-concept. No relationship was found to exist between racial self-concept and anxiety.;These results appear to indicate that the child's view of herself as a black person is influenced, but not totally determined, by her overall feelings about herself. As has been reported in other studies, anxiety is inversely related to how one feels about oneself overall.;The finding that the majority of these children had both positive global and positive racial self-concepts, and average levels of anxiety are inconsistent with that body of research which postulates a negative sense of racial self, self-dislike, and high anxiety, among black persons.
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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
