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African Psychology and Black Personality Testing
Abstract
The following instruments for measuring Black personality use the world view and cultural orientations of Africa have been developed and are described: (1) the Black Personality Questionnaire; (2) the Black Preference Inventory; (3) the Black Opinion Scale; (4) the Themes of Black Awareness Test; (5) the Themes Concerning Blacks Test; and (6) the African Self-Consciousness Scale. (VM)
... African self-consciousness attitudes are the overt expression of the Self-Extension Orientation (see Baldwin, 1990, for a more detailed explanation). Baldwin (1987Baldwin ( , 1996Baldwin & Bell, 1982, 1985 indicated that African self-consciousness has four dimensions. The first involves the recognition of oneself as African, biologically, psychologically, and culturally, and the acceptance of an African worldview. ...
... In another study with a sample of 150 African American adults, Myers and Thompson (1994) reported finding seven ASCS factors, four in keeping with Africentric theory's (Baldwin, 1987;Baldwin & Bell, 1985) dimensions and three additional factors. These authors did not delineate the type of extraction method employed and used the eigenvalue rule to determine the number of factors to retain. ...
... Africentric theory (Baldwin, 1981(Baldwin, , 1987(Baldwin, , 1990Baldwin & Bell, 1985), the MMRI (Sellers et al., 1997(Sellers et al., , 1998, and NT-E represent three prominent theories of Black racial identity theories in the literature. However, there have been limited studies of the psychometric properties of scores on the instruments that operationalize these theoretical perspectives. ...
In this study, we examined the internal consistency and the structural validity of scores on the African Self-Consciousness Scale (ASCS), the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI), and the Cross Racial Identity Scale (CRIS). Participants consisted of 225 African American college students—75 attending predominantly White institutions (PWIs) and 150 attending historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Internal consistency estimates were above .60 for scores on one ASCS subscale, six MIBI subscales, and six CRIS subscales. Exploratory factor analytic procedures supported a two-factor structure for ASCS scores, a five-factor structure for MIBI scores, and a six-factor structure for CRIS scores. Implications for Black racial identity and scale development are discussed.
... Looks certainly can be deceiving-including the one in the mirror which might be checked first if a mental health worker of African descent (Azibo, 2015b). Joseph Baldwin (1976), Kobi Kambo (1996, Daudi Ajani ya Azibo (Atwell & Azibo, 1991;Azibo, 1989Azibo, , 2011bAzibo, , 2012Azibo, Robinson, & Scott-Jones, 2011 (2004) Theological misorientation ...
This article reports the deleterious impact into the present times of Anglo American civilization on the psyche of African-U.S. people (Africans and their descendants enslaved by the Americans in the United States) beginning in 1619. Fifty-five culture-focused disorders of the racial African personality construct resulting from (continuing) conquest by the Americans are pointed out emphasizing phylogeny. As well, disorganization and discombobulation in ontogenetic aspects of personality functioning is also pointed out. The psycho-cultural dementedness that 1619 has wrought appears as if tremendous body blows softening up the population for actual genocide or re-enslavement options of Anglo American civilization. However, the mental ravaging may be superable with psycho-cultural repair and restoration of the African personality. A psycho-behavioral templet is presented to that end.
... This is at odds with the basic assumptions of science which sought to portray humans as opposed to nature in their quest for civilization. Taking inspiration from the expositions of African cosmology in Baldwin (1976) Azibo rejected the eurocentric theory of humanity vrs nature conceptualisation and asserted that the basic principle in the cosmology of African people is the Human-Nature unity (Azibo, 1989). Akbar (1985) another well-known African scholar, also articulated his conception of African mental disorders. ...
The culture of a people has great implications for the people of that society. The attitude, perceptions, beliefs and values are greatly influenced by their culture, which invariably affect their behaviour. This paper discussed the unique cultural identity and values of Ghana and how relevant they are for the mental health care provision in Ghana. The culturally sensitive psychological assessments and competency interventions were also discussed. Furthermore, the relevance of cultural values, the Ghanaian family systems as well as the interrelatedness in the social network regarding mental health interventions to facilitate healthcare have been emphasized.
... Historically introduced by Baldwin (1976), the psychological misorientation construct (Kambon, 1996) has received attention and great currency in the annals of culture-specific psychopathologies afflicting ADP from its promulgation in the Azibo Nosology (Anderson, 2003;Anderson & Stewart, 2007;Atwell & Azibo, 1991;Azibo, 1989Azibo, , 2006Belgrave & Allison, 2006;Harrell, 1999;Schultz, 2003). Psychological misorientation refers to the overt and cognitive behavioral orientation to reality that derives from ideation itself when said ideation is based in Eurasian concepts, beliefs, and definitional systems. ...
This article explores the implications of discourse analysis for reflective social work practice. Because discourse analysis is itself embedded in discourse, we begin by placing contemporary discourse analysis within its post-modern and post-structuralist context. In t the second section we provide an analysis of humanism, as the dominant social work discourse, and black perspectives and feminism, as examples of alternative discourses. Alternative discourses deconstruct the knowledge claims of dominant discourses by exposing their Euro-centric and patriarchal assumptions. Under the scrutiny of post-modern analysis, however, even alternative discourses have been deconstructed, their own knowledge claims called into question. In the third section we consider the possibility that discourse analysis, if incorporated into social work training, might encourage reflective practice. Because of the deconstructive nature of discourse analysis, it can help place social workers in a ‘position of uncertainty’. This uncertainty may be threatening to professionals' conceptions of themselves. But to the extent that professionals can learn to accept and tolerate contingency, they might be able to assume a posture of openness that would, in turn, facilitate reflective practice.
This study examined ethnic identities of Chinese‐American children living in the Chicago and San Francisco Bay Areas. The instrument measuring Ethnic Identity consisted of twenty cultural indicators. The reliability and validity of using this instrument were discussed extensively. The results showed that a large majority of these children could be classified as “Bicultural, while fewer were classified as “Mostly Americanized,”; or “Mostly Chinese.”; The findings suggest that, although the majority of these children were being brought up in the American mainstream, they were living between the two cultures.
This article begins with a contextual overview of the education of young African American males. Philosophical and theoretical
guideposts are later offered to suggest direction for the authentic education of these learners. Effective intervention strategies
are proposed along with the outline of a holistic service delivery model. It is suggested that the progress of young African
American males is linked to the ability of K-16 educational systems to develop positive visions and images of the survival
and success of these learners. The increased linkages of community-based programs that utilize Africentric principles and
practices are discussed.
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