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ERIC Number: EJ890081
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jul
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0167
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An Exploratory Examination of the Associations among Racial and Ethnic Discrimination, Racial Climate, and Trauma-Related Symptoms in a College Student Population
Pieterse, Alex L.; Carter, Robert T.; Evans, Sarah A.; Walter, Rebecca A.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, v57 n3 p255-263 Jul 2010
In this study, we examined the association among perceptions of racial and/or ethnic discrimination, racial climate, and trauma-related symptoms among 289 racially diverse college undergraduates. Study measures included the Perceived Stress Scale, the Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire, the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian Version, and the Racial Climate Scale. Results of a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) indicated that Asian and Black students reported more frequent experiences of discrimination than did White students. Additionally, the MANOVA indicated that Black students perceived the campus racial climate as being more negative than did White and Asian students. A hierarchical regression analysis showed that when controlling for generic life stress, perceptions of discrimination contributed an additional 10% of variance in trauma-related symptoms for Black students, and racial climate contributed an additional 7% of variance in trauma symptoms for Asian students. (Contains 2 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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