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Womanist Identity and Mental Health
Author(s) -
Carter Robert T.,
Parks Elizabeth E.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1996.tb01897.x
Subject(s) - mental health , identity (music) , psychology , sociology , gender studies , art , psychiatry , aesthetics
The authors explored the relationship between Helms's “womanist identity” attitudes and the mental health of Black and White women. Results showed that Black and White women have different patterns of responses to both womanist and mental health scales. For White women in the sample, Immersion‐Emersion and, to a lesser extent, Encounter attitudes were related to 7 types of psychological symptomatology. For Black women, no such relationship between womanist attitudes and mental health was found.