Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Hollar, Daniel Leighton
Author's Email Address	hollar@psy.fsu.edu
URN	etd-10202006-161840
Title	How Ethnic Identification Attitudes and Acculturative Stress Interact to Predict Suicide & Eating Disorder Symptomatology in Individuals of African Descent
Degree	Master of Science
Department	Psychology, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Ashby Plant Committee Member Na'im Akbar Committee Member Thomas E. Joiner, Jr. Committee Member
Keywords	Ethnic Identification African Self-Consciousness Acculturative Stress
Date of Defense	2006-07-07
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between culture and psychopathology to determine if proposed psychological risk factors (i.e., ethnic identification and acculturative stress) are predictive of several key mental health variables related to suicide and eating disorder behaviors (i.e., depression, anxiety, suicidality, body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness) in minority versus non-minority undergraduate students. The main hypothesis is that factors related to a low ethnic identification will be a risk for greater suicidality (i.e., suicide ideation) and eating disorder behaviors (i.e., body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness) among African American individuals who report acculturative stress. Results confirm the hypothesis that a low ethnic identification on the MEIM interacts with cculturative stress to predict greater suicidality (r=. 58, p<.01) but not body dissatisfaction or drive for thinness among a group of college students of African, European and Hispanic descent. Ethnic identification attitudes specific to African American individuals indicate that low African self-fortification x acculturative stress interact to predict greater suicidality in men (r=.68, p<. 10) while a low value for African centered relationships x acculturative stress interact to predict drive for thinness in African American women (r=. 63, p<.10).
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