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Altering White Racial Identity and Interracial Comfort Through Multicultural Training
Author(s) -
Parker Woodrow M.,
Moore Margaret A.,
Neimeyer Greg J.
Publication year - 1998
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.1556-6676.1998.tb02546.x
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , white (mutation) , consciousness , identity (music) , psychology , race (biology) , multicultural education , ethnic group , racial formation theory , social psychology , gender studies , sociology , pedagogy , anthropology , aesthetics , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , gene , philosophy
The authors examined the impact of multicultural training on the development of White racial identity and interracial comfort. Findings indicated that an integrative multicultural training program resulted in significant increases along 3 dimensions of White racial consciousness and in the levels of interracial comfort. This work extends related efforts to study White racial identity as an important parameter of multicultural training and counseling. In addition, psychometric data and factor structures are provided for the White Racial Consciousness Development Scale (Claney & Parker, 1989) and the Interracial Comfort Index (Claney & Parker, 1989).