Proximity of Clothing to Self Scale

Sontag, M. Suzanne; Lee, Jongnam

doi:10.1037/t55964-000

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“…The communication and social value of African-American types of hair styles, clothing, and accessories have been and still are 'devalued' because of an unfortunate history's backlash (Holloman et al 1996, Franklin 2001). Sontag and Lee (2004) discussed the findings of Kwon (1994) stating, 'When feeling good about their clothing as compared with feeling bad about it, college 70…”

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Dress, self-esteem, self-efficiency and the academic achievement of African-American high school girls

Ellington

Leslie

2008

International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Educati

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Dress, the self, and education are vital parts of the African-American adolescent way of life. It has been said that African-Americans, in general, spend more of their resources on clothing accessories, and other body adornments (such as hair), than any other race of people. As dress is so important to this population, we discuss how AfricanAmerican adolescent girl's self-esteem, self-efficacy, and academic achievement are affected by dress. We further confer how dress has affected individual and peer acceptance, teacher and peer expectations, school performance, behavioral issues, and crime issues. The implementation of uniforms into the public school sector is discussed to expose the proposed benefits and criticisms from school officials, students, and parents. Lastly, we argue the theoretical views that must be considered when studying dress as it relates to the self and education of AfricanAmerican adolescent girls.

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“…High school aged girls find dress to be one of the most important factors in their lives (MacGillivray and Wilson 1997). Sontag and Lee (2004) argued that as humans, we communicate through our non-verbal cues -in this case, dress.…”

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confidence: 98%