title: Racial socialization, racial identity, and Black students' adjustment to college.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of racial socialization and racial identity on adjustment in Black college students. Self-report questionnaires were administered to 141 Black college students from a predominantly White university and racially diverse college. The findings suggest that racial socialization positively contributes to academic adjustment. An internalized-multicultural identity positively contributed to overall college adjustment, and pre-encounter miseducated racial identity negatively contributed. Internalized Afrocentric racial identity was negatively related to overall college adjustment. Implications for multicultural social scientists and directions for future research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. dma2105@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Deidre M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Anglin
authors.forename: Jay C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Wade
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior; D012933:Social Identification; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities