Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/kira_banks Recent documents in Kira Hudson Banks, Ph.D. en-us Sun, 31 May 2009 08:11:45 PDT 3600 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