Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I: Introduction
1. Work Notes on Empirical Research in Black Psychology // A. Wade Boykin, Anderson J. Franklin, and J. Frank Yates
Part II: Methodology
2. An Approach to Characterizing Parent-Infant Interactions // Ewart A. C. Thomas
3. Crosscultural Methods for Survey Research in Black Urban Areas // Carl O. Word
4. Bias and Discriminability in Group Perfromance // Ewart A. C. Thomas and Lillian Patterson
5. Scale Construction in the Assessment of Sex-Role Stereotypes among Minorities // O. Jackson Cole
6. Black Psychology and the Research Process: Keeping the Baby but Throwing Out the Bath Water // A. Wade Boykin
Part III: Identity and Adjustment
7. The Negro-to-Black Conversion Experience: An Empirical Analysis // William E. Cross, Jr.
8. Correlates of Adjustment in Urban Black Aged // James S. Jackson, John D. Bacon, and John Peterson
9. Sharing in Black Children: The Impact of Reference Group Appeals and Other Environmental Factors // Sandra A. Sims
10. External Feedback, Self-Evaluation, and Performance of Black and White College Students // Oscar Barbarin
11. Patterns of Coping in Black Schoolchildren // Diane S. Pollard
Part IV: Cognitive Abilities
12. Locus of Control and Problem-Solving Abilities in Young Black Children: An Exploratory Analysis // Algea Othella Harrison
13. Cultural Content of Materials and Ethnic Group Performance in Categorized Recall // Anderson J. Franklin and Lenora Fulani
14. Recall and Memory Organization from Variations in List Content: A Test of the Culture-Specific Hypothesis // Anderson J. Franklin
15. Story Recall in Young Black and White Children: Effects of Racial Group Membership, Race of Experimenter, and Dialect // William S. Hall, Stephen Reder, and Michael Cole
16. Relationship between Cognitive Style and Selective Attention in Black Children // Algea Othella Harrison
Part V: Motivational Issues
17. Occupational Expectations and Dropout Propensity in Urban Black High School Students // M. Belinda Tucker, James S. Jackson, and Ronald M. Jennings
18. Toward a Reconceptualization of the Social-Cognitive Bases of Achievement Orientations in Blacks // W. Curtis Banks, Gregory V. McQuater, and Janet L. Hubbard
19. Scholastic Motivation among Urban High School Students: An Expectancy Analysis // J. Frank Yates and Ozzie L. Edwards
20. Self-Confidence and Motivation among Black and White College Freshmen: An Exploration // J. Frank Yates and William Collins
21. Relationship of Internal-External Locus of Control, Self-Concept, and Masculinity-Femininity to Fear of Success in Black Freshmen and Senior College Women // James E. Savage, Jr., Anita D. Stearns, Yvonne B. Kelley, and Janet Williams
22. Psychological/Behavioral Verve: Some Theoretical Explorations and Empirical Manifestations // A. Wade Boykin
Part VI: Problems for Future Research
23. The Military's Coping Patterns with Problems of Race // Herman W. Dorsett
24. Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus: A Challenge for Black Behavioral Scientists // William B. Lawson
25. Conceptual and Strategic Issues in the Relationship of Black Psychology to American Social Science // James M. Jones
Index