Effects of Race and Adolescent Decision-Making on Status Attainment and Self-Esteem

Collective Self-Esteem and Burnout in Professional School Counselors

“…For example, although Blacks in the United States generally may feel good about their own racial group (i.e., have high private collective self-esteem), external perceptions of their racial group may be negative or derogatory (Cooke, 2002;Postmes & Branscombe, 2002), resulting in lower perceived public collective self-esteem. However, despite the oftentimes negative perceptions of Blacks in this country by non-Blacks, a multitude of studies (e.g., Gray-Little & Hafdahl, 2000;Twenge & Crocker, 2002;Yang & Blodgett, 2000) have documented that Black Americans tend to have higher self-concepts in comparison to their non-Black counterparts.…”