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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"perceptions of discrimination"”.
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Welcome to America?: The Perceptions of Discrimination Experienced by International Students
This study explores the phenomenon of discrimination as it pertains to the experiences of international students studying in Southeast Louisiana. This qualitative study seeks to answer the questions of where and how international students perceive discrimination, and how discrimination affects a …
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THE IMPACTS OF VISIBLE/INVISIBLE IDENTITY CHARACTERISTICS ON EMPLOYEES’ PERCEPTIONS OF DISCRIMINATION, JOB SATISFACTION, AND TURNOVER INTENTIONS
… shows that manifestation and/or suppression of an identity in the workplace can affect individual outcomes such as perceptions of discrimination, job satisfaction, and turnover intentions.</p> <p>The present study investigated whether an identity characterized as visible and/or invisible …
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A Love-Hate Story : Perception of Discrimination of Hispanic-American Women in Finland An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
This study explores perceptions of discrimination and the participants' understandings of their experiences, giving voice to their concerns and the emotions elicited by those concerns. Discrimination and its pervasive nature and negative consequences are well researched. Several studies support the …
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An Examination of African Americans' Utilization of Health Care
<p>The study examined the relationship between perceptions of discrimination, social support, quality of health care received, and utilization of health care services among African Americans. Data was analyzed from 99 African American respondents that completed either an online or paper …
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Discrimination and health: how being Hispanic can make you sick
The perception of discrimination is a stressor that can lead to a reduction in an individual's reserve capacity and an increase in negative emotions, among other deleterious effects. I tested the Reserve Capacity Model as it relates to measures of physical and mental-health related quality of life. …
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Courting gender bias: an examination of women’s experiences in the profession of law in Kansas
This study examines the issue of gender bias and other gendering processes within the profession of law in Kansas. Although women have made great strides toward equality within the law profession, there are still glaring disparities between men’s and women’s occupational attainment. Women enter law …
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Caregiving Baby Boomer men: An exploration of the impact of discrimination on psychological distress and caregiving roles
In order to further current understanding of the diversity and complexity of caregivers, this study examined the relationship between Baby Boomer men s perceptions of discrimination based on their current caregiving roles and their psychological distress. Aspects of caregiving roles assessed …
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An Examination of African American Male Educators' Perceptions of Relationships and Discrimination
<p>In the field of education, African-American men are greatly underrepresented across all school settings. In the state of Illinois of nearly 130,000 certified educators, there are less than two thousand (2,000) African American males across the state. Through a critical race theory lens, the …
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Experiences of ethnic-related discrimination and their influence on the health of Mexican immigrants
The purpose of this complementarity mixed methods study was to provide empirical support for the Ethnic-Related Discrimination Model (ERDM), an integrated version of the Transactional Stress and Coping Model (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984) and the Model of Racism-related Stress and Wellbeing (Harrell, …
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Perceptions and Prototypes of Racial Discrimination Across Contexts
Perceptions of group-level racial discrimination have been shown to differ depending on whether the target of discrimination belongs to the perceiver’s ingroup or outgroup (e.g., Carter & Murphy, 2015; Craig & Richeson, 2017; Norton & Sommers, 2011). These perceptions have also been shown to vary …
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Predicting Asian American college student social change behaviors from individual- and campus-level variables
… in DSpace on 2019-02-06T19:32:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 YI-THESIS-2018.pdf: 843116 bytes, checksum: 3036f4528e1df5c2fe8d23a80beca888 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: 32854bea28f380ddcf1a25165ae712e2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-14