Perceived Racial Discrimination as a Barrier to College Enrollment for African Americans  

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O'Hara, Rose E. ; Gibbons, Frederick X. ; Weng, Chih-Yuan ; Gerrard, Meg ; Simons, Ronald L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 38 no. 1 (Jan. 2012), page 77-89.
Topik: Racial Discrimination; College Enrollment; Academic Achievement; Academic Orientation; Expectations
Fulltext: PSPB_38_01_77.pdf (581.52KB)

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African Americans trail European Americans in terms of academic achievement, even when accounting for differences in socioeconomic status. One cause of this gap may be racial discrimination. In the current article the authors hypothesized that early perceived racial discrimination (by 5th grade) would predict college enrollment, mediated by changes from 7th grade to 10th grade in academic orientation, college aspirations and expectations, and deviance tolerance. Participants were 750 African Americans from the Family and Community Health Study. A structural equation model that controlled for socioeconomic status and earlier academic performance supported the hypothesis, with the exception that discrimination did not influence aspirations. The effect of discrimination on expectations, however, was moderated: Participants with high future orientation maintained high expectations in spite of discrimination. These results suggest that discrimination discourages some African Americans from pursuing higher education and that increasing future orientation may promote African Americans’ college enrollment.

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