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Coping With Perceived Racial And Ethnic Discrimination In Women Of Color In Graduate Education, Priti Shah
Coping With Perceived Racial And Ethnic Discrimination In Women Of Color In Graduate Education, Priti Shah
Counseling and Psychological Services Dissertations
How one perceives and copes with such experiences in graduate education can have profound impact upon the personal and professional experiences of minority women in higher education. This study utilized a grounded theory approach (Glasser & Strauss, 1967; Cresswell, Fassinger, 2005) to investigate the impact of perceived racial and ethnic discrimination occurring in academia and effective methods of coping with perceived racial/ ethnic discrimination among 10 women of color in graduate education. Data sources included individual interviews and a group interview meeting. This study allowed women of color who have felt marginalized to experience a sense of connectedness as they …
Coping With Discrimination Among Mexican Descent Adolescents, Lisa Edwards, Andrea J. Romero
Coping With Discrimination Among Mexican Descent Adolescents, Lisa Edwards, Andrea J. Romero
College of Education Faculty Research and Publications
The current research is designed to explore the relationship among discrimination stress, coping strategies, and self-esteem among Mexican descent youth (N = 73, age 11-15 years). Results suggest that primary control engagement and disengagement coping strategies are positively associated with discrimination stress. Furthermore, self-esteem is predicted by an interaction of primary control engagement coping and discrimination stress, such that at higher levels of discrimination stress, youth who engaged in more primary control engagement coping reported higher self-esteem. The authors’ findings indicate that Mexican descent youth are actively finding ways to cope with the common experience of negative stereotypes and prejudice, …