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White Racial Identity Statuses and NEO Personality Constructs: An Exploratory Analysis
Author(s) -
Silvestri Timothy J.,
Richardson Tina Q.
Publication year - 2001
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.1556-6676.2001.tb01945.x
Subject(s) - agreeableness , psychology , conscientiousness , extraversion and introversion , social psychology , personality , identity (music) , neuroticism , hierarchical structure of the big five , openness to experience , white (mutation) , racism , big five personality traits , facet (psychology) , developmental psychology , sociology , gender studies , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , gene , acoustics
This study investigated the relationship between White racial identity development as proposed by J. E. Helms (1995) and the personality constructs Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. Participants were 105 White college students (55 women and 50 men) who were administered the White Racial Identity Attitude Scale (J. E. Helms & R. T. Carter, 1993), the NEO Five‐Factor Inventory (P. T. Costa & R. R. McCrae, 1992) and the New Racism Scale (C. K Jacobson, 1985). Results indicated that White racial identity was differentially related to several personality constructs and aversive racism. Implications for future White racial identity research are discussed.