Copyright (c) 2010 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks Recent documents in Kira Hudson Banks, Ph.D. en-us Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:04:30 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/21 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/21 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:33:35 PDT Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/20 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/20 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:26:09 PDT Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/19 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/19 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:43:00 PDT Current theoretical models suggest that the most potent and impacting discrimination experienced by African Americans in the post Jim Crow era are subtle and unconscious forms of discrimination that are experienced on a daily basis. This study investigates the relationship between perceived everyday discrimination and anxiety and depressive symptoms. Further, we examine gender as a moderator of this relationship. Data come from the 1995 Detroit Area Study data with 570 African American respondents. Results indicate that perceived discrimination is directly related to both symptoms of depression and anxiety. Gender moderates the relationship between discrimination and anxiety symptoms, but not discrimination and depressive symptoms. Overall, different patterns of relationships were apparent for men and women. Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/18 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/18 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:34:40 PDT The current study examines the relationship between racial discrimination and depressive symptoms. In particular, it investigated whether college hassles moderated or mediated the relationship. Participants included 194 African American students from a large, Midwestern, state university. Participants provided self-report of their experience of daily hassles related to racial discrimination and college life in addition to depressive symptoms and demographic information. Results indicated that the relationship between racial discrimination and depressive symptoms was mediated by college hassles. The results suggest that by decreasing the experience of generic college hassles, the indirect relationship between discrimination and depressive symptoms might be minimized. Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/17 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/17 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:29:45 PDT This study investigated how hope influences the relationship between discrimination and depressive symptoms. Results from participants’ (N=318) responses suggest that increased levels of hope were directly related to decreased levels of depressive symptoms. However, increased levels of hope were also related to a stronger relationship between discrimination and depressive symptoms. Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/16 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/16 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:46:41 PDT Diversity is used in countless vision statements of institutions of higher learning. Yet, it is critical to examine how students understand the concept and conceptualize their personal involvement. Given that the current population of college students is predominantly White, it is important to examine this population. The current sample consisted of 151 self-identified White college students (61 men and 90 women) from a predominantly White, residential, liberal arts college. Responses to 2 open-ended questions—“In your own words, express how you would define the term diversity?” and “How do Whites fit into your definition of diversity?”—were analyzed in Atlas.ti 5.0 using an open coding method. Race was the most common definition of diversity (61%). A smaller number of students conceptualized diversity as involving interaction across differences (41.7%). The majority of the respondents (80%) felt Whites have a role in diversity, but the nature of that role varied. Findings suggest that it is helpful to have clear institutional definitions of diversity to provide multiple entry points and increase the likelihood that White students will engage in campus diversity initiatives. Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/15 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/15 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:13:56 PDT The current version of the armed forces policy on homosexuality is steeped in erroneous assumptions.One presumption is that it is appropriate, and serves a protective function, for people to cease to acknowledge an aspect of their identity. Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/13 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/13 Mon, 24 May 2010 13:33:39 PDT Arizona continues to be in the news for legislation that is possibly racially charged. The most recent source of controversy is House Bill 2281, which would ban ethnic studies classes. More generally, it would write colorblindness into the law.The bill states that schools cannot include courses that (1) are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group and (2) advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals. Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/12 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/12 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:36:30 PDT In the wake of the health-care debate, I've been struck by the blanket criticism to federal programs, much of which lacks historical context. Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/11 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/11 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:42:54 PDT I know the Oscars happened a week ago, but I’m still nagged by some of the larger implications of the event. Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/10 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/10 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:36:35 PDT Required to do a dance that represents a culture, Russian ice skaters Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin chose Australian Aborigines. Problem? They got it wrong and failed to respond to feedback. Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/9 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/9 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:27:10 PST From my work on race, it seems parents are most afraid that talking about race with children will instill racial bias rather than eradicate it. It is important to keep in mind that children develop an awareness of race in their preschool years. Therefore, we are not inserting ideas into their heads when we are intentional about teaching race. In fact, we can help steer children toward more productive paths rather than simply leaving them to soak up the negative baggage about race. Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/8 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/8 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:39:45 PDT This review synthesizes the current knowledge regarding African American women and depression. After highlighting major findings related to the epidemiology, etiology, symptomatology and treatment, we will discuss the gaps in our understanding of these factors specific to African American women. We will argue that filling in these gaps will require a theoretical framework that takes into account the intersection of race and gender. We will present an empirically defined heuristic for studying mental illness among African American women, in terms of both experiences and outcomes. Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/7 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/7 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:35:49 PDT Forgiveness research has focused almost exclusively on interpersonal transgressions committed in close relationships. Consequently, less is known about factors informing forgiveness of non-intimate actors. The current study addresses these gaps by investigating correlates of forgiveness over racial discrimination among African American men (N=171). Specifically, we explore relationships between the endorsement of traditional masculine ideology (e.g., restrictive emotionality), overall forgiveness, forgiveness with positive affect, and forgiveness with the absence of negative affect. Links between personality, religiosity, social support, discrimination experiences, and these forms of forgiveness also are examined. Restrictive emotionality emerged as a barrier to forgiveness of discrimination. However, the relationship between restrictive emotionality and forgiveness was moderated by age, socioeconomic status, personality, and religious coping disposition. Wizdom Powell Hammond http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/6 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/6 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:15:19 PDT This study examined the association between racial identity profiles, discrimination, and mental health outcomes. African American college students (N = 194) completed measures of racial discrimination, racial identity, college hassles, and depressive symptoms. Four meaningful profiles emerged through a cluster analysis of seven dimensions of racial identity assessed using the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI). Results suggested racial identity moderates the relation between discrimination and depressive symptoms. Students whose racial identity profile involves the goal of blending with the mainstream and focusing on shared human qualities rather than race as a core ideological concept had a significantly stronger association between racial discrimination and depressive symptoms. The results hold implications for investigating the experience of racial discrimination and conceptualization of racial identity. Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/5 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/5 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:08:53 PDT For decades, researchers have been interested in identifying individual-differences variables that are linked to adjustment. One variable, which is believed not only to represent an important individual-differences predictor of a range of adaptive outcomes but also to have important implications for counseling students, is hope (Synder, 1995). Edward C. Chang http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/4 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/4 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:37:01 PDT This study assessed racial variations in how adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism relate to psychological functioning in a sample of 150 Black and 150 White female college students. Comparative results indicated that Black women, as compared with White women, reported less adaptive perfectionism, less life satisfaction, greater stress, and greater negative affect. Correlational results indicated that for both groups, maladaptive perfectionism, but not adaptive perfectionism, was associated with stress. Accordingly, a model in which stress mediates the link between maladaptive perfectionism and psychological functioning was tested. Overall, path-analytic results indicated that stress completely or partially mediated the link between maladaptive perfectionism and psychological functioning for both Black and White women. Potential implications of the present findings for counseling Black and White women are discussed. Edward C. Chang http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/3 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/3 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:49:16 PDT From the Editorials & Commentary section of CollegeNews.org (http://www.collegenews.org). Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/2 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/2 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:46:12 PDT From the Editorials & Commentary section of CollegeNews.org (http://www.collegenews.org). Kira Hudson Banks http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/1 http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks/1 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:19:47 PDT This session will focus on the collaboration between a librarian and professor of psychology for a seminar, “Psychology of Racism.” Goals of the class included introducing images as a parallel means of communication to textual information and expanding the visual vocabulary of the students in order to enhance their discussions of race, racism and representations of each in the media. Stephanie Davis-Kahl