Sensitivity to status-based rejection: Implications for African American students' college experience

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 896-918

  Mendoza Denton, Rodolfo ^a   Downey, Geraldine ^b   Purdie, Valerie J ^c   Davis, Angelina ^c   Pietrzak, Janina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85047671139     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.83.4.896     Document Type: Article

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