Psychology Department, University of California, Berkeley.
J Youth Adolesc. 1979 Jun;8(2):149-59. doi: 10.1007/BF02087617.
The view that black youth frequently manifest disordered personalities and negative self-concepts is examined through a comparison of the responses of black and white female adolescents from differing cultural and social class backgrounds to an Adjective Check List. While dissimilar from white female adolescents in many important respects, black subjects scored high on indices of personal adjustment and did not describe themselves in negatively valued terms. In fact, black girls from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, who are generally portrayed as particularly prone to pathology and negative self-evaluations, describe themselves in more favorable terms than black and white subjects from middle class backgrounds. Moreover, U.S. and Jamaican black subjects describe themselves in surprisingly similar fashion, and differ in similar respects from their white American counterparts, thereby providing some evidence for the impact of a common cultural heritage on black personality cross-nationally.
通过对比不同文化和社会阶层背景的黑人和白人少女对形容词检查表的反应，考察了黑人青年经常表现出紊乱的个性和消极的自我概念的观点。尽管黑人少女在许多重要方面与白人少女不同，但她们在个人适应方面的得分很高，并且不以负面的方式描述自己。事实上，来自较低社会经济背景的黑人女孩，通常被描绘为特别容易出现病态和消极自我评价，她们对自己的描述比来自中产阶级背景的黑人和白人少女更为正面。此外，美国和牙买加的黑人少女以惊人相似的方式描述自己，与她们的美国白人同龄人在相似方面存在差异，从而为共同的文化遗产对黑人个性的跨国影响提供了一些证据。
