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The Relationship Between African American Females' Cultural Beliefs and Attitudes and Their Perceptions of Their Body Image
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The Relationship Between African American Females' Cultural Beliefs and Attitudes and Their Perceptions of Their Body Image
Yazar:
Jones, TaShara L., author.
ISBN:
9780438009974
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1 electronic resource (75 pages)
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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06M(E).
Advisors: Huberta Jackson-Lowman Committee members: Brenda Hughes; Brian Sims.
Özet:
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between factors like body-esteem (BE), the internalization of engendered racial myths (ERM), Cultural Misorientation (CM), and African Self-Consciousness (ASC) and the relationship these factors may have on African American female's attitudes about their body-image. For this study a convenience sample of 180 African American female participants were recruited from psychology and sociology courses on Florida A&M University's campus. A demographic questionnaire, the Body-Esteem Scale (BES), the African Self-Consciousness Scale (ASCS), the Cultural Misorientation Scale (CMS), and the Engendered Racial Myths Scale (ERMS) represented the instruments distributed to measure and collect the data. This study sets out to fill the void in research as it relates to factors influencing African American females' views of their self/body-image. The most significant finding of this study was the negative relationship identified between CM & BE. Similarly, there were significantly negative relationships between both ASC & ERM; and ASC & CM. The results also revealed a significantly positive relationship between ERM & CM. However, there were no significant relationships identified between ASC & BE or between ERM & BE. These findings add support to the CM theory by suggesting that such disorders as CM creates a distorted and Eurocentric way of viewing body-image. Further, this study offered support to the ASC theory by suggesting that those African American females who demonstrated a stronger ASC tends to have lower CM scores.
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School code: 0872
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