Effects of racial socialization and racial identity on acculturative stress in African American college students.
The aim of this study was to determine if racial identity mediates the relation between racial socialization and acculturative stress in African American university students, once demographic factors are accounted for. In a sample of 84 participants, significant relations were found between racial socialization and acculturative stress, racial socialization and racial identity, and racial identity and acculturative stress. Partial support for a mediational model was found, with the best predictors of acculturative stress being immersion attitudes and internalization attitudes.
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Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303, USA.
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Bakeman
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D000069:Acculturation; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005845:Georgia; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D011822:Race Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D012933:Social Identification; D012951:Socialization; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology