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Emotional Self‐Awareness, Eating Disorders, and Racial Identity Attitudes in African American Women
Author(s) -
Dinsmore Britta Davis,
Mallinckrodt Brent
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of multicultural counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.545
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 2161-1912
pISSN - 0883-8534
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1912.1996.tb00308.x
Subject(s) - alexithymia , psychology , identity (music) , eating disorders , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , acoustics , physics
Certain racial identity attitudes may involve diminished internal emotional awareness, features of a syndrome known as “alexithymia,” which has been observed in survivors of extreme trauma. This study found that levels of alexithymia, but not eating disorders, were related to attitudes characteristic of early stages of racial identity development among African American women.