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Believing In Achieving: Examining African American Women’S Doctoral Attainment, Reshanta Camea Hazelbaker
Believing In Achieving: Examining African American Women’S Doctoral Attainment, Reshanta Camea Hazelbaker
Theses and Dissertations--Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology
This research explored the intersectionality of race, class, and gender within the sources of self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997) underlying the socialization messages influencing African American women’s doctoral attainment beliefs. Twenty African American female/woman doctoral achievers completed an online survey, consisting of open-ended and multiple-choice response items, designed to identify and explore the sources of self-efficacy influencing African American women’s doctoral attainment beliefs. Eleven participants participated in focus interviews to expand upon and clarify initial survey responses.
Thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) and tenets of critical race theory (Ladson-Billings & Tate, 1995; McCoy & Rodricks, 2015) were used to analyze the …