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Suicidality Protective Factors among Black College Students: Which Cultural and Personal Resources Matter?
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Wang, Mei-Chuan; Wong, Y. Joel; Nyutu, Pius N.; Fu, Chu-Chun – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2020
This study examined the influence of cultural resources (ethnic identity, Afrocentric worldview, and religiosity) on suicidal thoughts and behaviors among Black college students and the role of personal resources (ego resiliency and optimism) as mediators of this link. Data collected from 257 participants were analyzed. A bivariate correlational…
Descriptors: Suicide, Prevention, Cultural Influences, Ethnicity
The Influence of Africentric Values and Neighborhood Satisfaction on the Academic Self-Efficacy of African American Elementary School Children
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Shin, Richard Q. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2011
This exploratory study examined the relationships between Africentric values, racial/ethnic identity, neighborhood satisfaction, and academic self-efficacy beliefs among 88 African American elementary school children. Results indicated that Africentric values and neighborhood satisfaction were both predictive of academic self-efficacy beliefs.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Neighborhoods, Ethnicity, Self Efficacy
Dress Codes in Post-Apartheid South African Workplaces
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Grant, Terri; Nodoba, Gaontebale – Business Communication Quarterly, 2009
There are many factors that influence dress code decision making in formal and informal business arenas. In South Africa, with its colonial and apartheid history followed by an exuberant resurgence of Africanism, factors such as diversity of race, ethnicity, religion, and culture play a critical role in lifestyle and worldview. These many and…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Dress Codes, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
The Impact of Body Image and Afrocentric Appearance on Sexual Refusal Self-Efficacy in Early Adolescent African American Girls
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Plybon, Laura E.; Holmer, Heidi; Hunter, Alexis; Sheffield, Charity; Stephens, Christopher; Cavolo, Lucas – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2009
Research examining the association between body image and sexual risk-taking has been mostly limited to clinical and/or White female samples. It is unclear whether body image plays a role in sexual risk-taking among African American early adolescent females. Moreover, research has neglected to consider body image within a cultural and ethnic…
Descriptors: Females, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Self Concept
Socializing the Black Child to Cope in the 1980s.
Thomas, Shirley W. – 1980
Socialization strategies for black children should be designed to prepare them to function in a competent, comfortable, and culturally secure manner; there may be a need to reevaluate the ability of those advocates currently responsible for the welfare of black children. Strategies of socialization should be based upon the philosophy of…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Youth, Change Agents, Child Advocacy
Ethnic Pride and the Classroom: An Ethnographic Study of Classroom Behavior--Norms and Themes.
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Menken, Kate – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1994
The purpose of this ethnographic study was to determine the norms and rules of behavior in a multi-ethnic seventh-grade classroom in an inner-city school. Data were gathered through classroom observations and interviews with the teacher. The teacher in this class stressed ethnic pride, and because the majority of the students (as well as the…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Asian Americans, Black Dialects, Blacks