Am I My Sister’s Keeper? Linking Domestic Violence Attitudes to Black Racial Identity

This exploratory online investigation sought to examine the links between African American college women’s gender role attitudes, Black racial identity attitudes, and domestic violence attitudes toward African American women in heterosexual marital relationships where domestic violence occurs (N = 1...

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Published in:Journal of black psychology 2017-04, Vol.43 (3), p.230-258
Main Authors: Blackmon, Sha’Kema M., Owens, Archandria, Geiss, Meaghan Leigh, Laskowsky, Vanessa, Donahue, Stephanie, Ingram, Christina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abused women
African Americans
Afrocentrism
Attitudes
Beliefs
Black college students
College students
Domestic violence
Ethnic Groups
Ethnic identity
Family Violence
Female roles
Females
Gender
Gender identity
Gender role attitudes
Heterosexuality
Internalization
Justification
Marital relations
Perpetrators
Racial Identification
Racial identity
Roles
Sex Role
Sex roles
United States
Victims
Victims of Crime
Violence
Women
Worldview
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Summary:This exploratory online investigation sought to examine the links between African American college women’s gender role attitudes, Black racial identity attitudes, and domestic violence attitudes toward African American women in heterosexual marital relationships where domestic violence occurs (N = 192). Less sophisticated Black racial identity attitudes (i.e., pre-encounter and immersion-emersion) predicted greater self-reports of justifying domestic violence toward African American women and believing that African American women benefit from abuse. Pre-encounter and immersion-emersion attitudes also predicted less willingness to help victims. An Afrocentric worldview (i.e., internalization Afrocentricity) was positively predictive of believing that African American women benefit from domestic violence as well as greater willingness to help victims. Appreciating one’s African American identity and other racial and ethnic groups (i.e., internalization multiculturalist inclusive) predicted less justification, fewer reports that African American women benefit from abuse, and a greater willingness to help victims. Post hoc mediation analyses revealed that gender role attitudes and an investment in protecting African American male domestic violence perpetrators (i.e., Black male victimage and justification beliefs) mediated the link between internalization Afrocentricity attitudes and the belief that African American women benefit from abuse.
ISSN:0095-7984
1552-4558
DOI:10.1177/0095798416633583