Wading Through the Stereotypes: Positive and Negative Associations between Media Use and Black Adolescents' Conceptions of Self

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 284-294

  Monique Ward, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NEGRO; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TELEVISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; TELEVISION;

EID: 1442280752     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.40.2.284     Document Type: Article

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