Exploring the Relationships between White Racial Consciousness, Feminist Identity Development and Family Environment for White Undergraduate Women

A sample of 394 White undergraduate females completed a demographic questionnaire and three assessment measures: the Oklahoma Racial Attitudes Scale-Revised (ORAS-R) (Vandiver & Leach, 2005), the Feminist Identity Composite (FIC) (Fischer et. al., 2000) and the Family Environment Scale-Real Form...

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Published inCollege student journal Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 283 - 307
Main Authors Wolff, Kara E, Munley, Patrick H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Project Innovation, Inc 01.06.2012
Project Innovation (Alabama)
Subjects
Correlation
Family Environment
Family life
Female identity
Feminism
Gender Bias
Measures (Individuals)
Multivariate Analysis
Questionnaires
Race awareness
Racial Attitudes
Racial Bias
Self Concept
Surveys
Undergraduate Students
White women
Whites
United States
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Summary:A sample of 394 White undergraduate females completed a demographic questionnaire and three assessment measures: the Oklahoma Racial Attitudes Scale-Revised (ORAS-R) (Vandiver & Leach, 2005), the Feminist Identity Composite (FIC) (Fischer et. al., 2000) and the Family Environment Scale-Real Form (FES-R) (Moos & Moos, 1974, 1994, 2002). Four separate canonical correlation analyses were conducted and three main findings emerged. First, family environments that were perceived by participants to promote engagement with a variety of outside perspectives were related to more actively anti-racist worldviews and well-developed feminist identities; while family environments perceived to reflect a more insular focus were related to more prejudicial racial attitudes and less feminist identity development. Second, the more advanced stages of feminist identity development were related to more anti-racist White racial consciousness attitudes. Third, emerging understandings of both sexism and racism appear to be related to each other. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed. (Contains 4 tables.)
ISSN:0146-3934
2691-3887