Further Validation of the Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites Scale on a Sample of University Students in the Southeastern United States

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 585-589

  Sifford, Amy ^a   Ng, Kok Mun ^a   Wang, Chuang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

privilege; racism; scale validation; Whites

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449503434     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017278     Document Type: Article

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