Womanist Identity and Mental Health
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- 6 May 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Counseling & Development
- Vol. 74 (5) , 484-489
Abstract
The authors explored the relationship between Helms's “womanist identity” attitudes and the mental health of Black and White women. Results showed that Black and White women have different patterns of responses to both womanist and mental health scales. For White women in the sample, Immersion‐Emersion and, to a lesser extent, Encounter attitudes were related to 7 types of psychological symptomatology. For Black women, no such relationship between womanist attitudes and mental health was found.Keywords
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