Date of Award

Winter 3-22-2025

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Organizational Unit

Morgridge College of Education, Counseling Psychology

First Advisor

Ruth Chao

Second Advisor

Pat Garriot

Third Advisor

Duan Zhang

Fourth Advisor

Shimelis Assefa

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Keywords

Color-blind racial attitudes, White racial affect

Abstract

Racial bias is something that can impact many fields, including the field of psychology. There is growing research in examining the relationship between multicultural counseling competence and color-blind racial attitudes as well as other factors like White racial affect Few studies have examined the potential mediating relationship White racial affect may have on color-blind racial attitudes and multicultural counseling competence. To address this gap, this study provides insight into how White racial affect mediates the relationship between color-blind racial attitudes and multicultural counseling competence among white psychology trainees. This study also further examined the extent to which color-blind racial attitudes predict multicultural counseling competence (N = 99). Results showed that color-blind racial attitudes had a predictive relationship to multicultural counseling competence Awareness and Knowledge. Results additionally showed that White racial affect partially mediated the relationship between color-blind racial attitudes and multicultural counseling competence Knowledge. These findings highlight the importance of White racial affect in understanding the predictive relationship between color-blind racial attitudes and multicultural counseling competence.

Copyright Date

3-2025

Publication Statement

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Rights Holder

Noah Schieffer Scanlon

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

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96 pgs

File Size

971 KB

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