{"id":11115,"date":"2010-12-31T00:19:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T00:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11115"},"modified":"2010-12-31T00:19:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T00:19:56","slug":"applying-self-discrepancy-theory-to-biracial-identity-and-adjustment-a-proposed-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11115","title":{"rendered":"Applying Self-Discrepancy Theory to Biracial Identity and Adjustment: A Proposed Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.ucdavis.edu\/research\/bb\/abstracts\/Lauren%20Berger%20Brown%20Bag%20Abstract.doc\" target=\"_blank\">Applying Self-Discrepancy Theory to Biracial Identity and Adjustment: A Proposed Study<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.ucdavis.edu\/research\/bb\/index.cfm?areaID=2\" target=\"_blank\">Social-Personality Brown Bag Series<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Davis<br \/>\nLocation: Young 166<br \/>\n2010-11-08, 12:10-13:30 PST (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauren Berger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Research suggests that biracials may have poorer mental health than monoracials and a recent meta-analysis (Shih &amp; Sanchez, 2005) cites a lack of research testing potential mediators of the link between biracial identity and adjustment. The proposed study aims to examine <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.gsb.columbia.edu\/cbs-directory\/detail\/494876\/E++Tory+Higgins\" target=\"_blank\">Higgin\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-Discrepancy_Theory\" target=\"_blank\">Self-Discrepancy Theory<\/a> (1987, 1989) model of vulnerability as one such mediator of the relationship. Discrepancies between self-state representations have been found to be related to different kinds of emotional distress and self-esteem.\u00a0 We hypothesize that both internal and external (dis-confirming feedback from others) identity discrepancies will be related to lower levels of biracial adjustment. The extent to which the individual is comfortable with conflicting messages will also be examined as a moderator. Some aspects of the study are not yet finalized and feedback\/comments would be much appreciated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applying Self-Discrepancy Theory to Biracial Identity and Adjustment: A Proposed Study Social-Personality Brown Bag Series University of California, Davis Location: Young 166 2010-11-08, 12:10-13:30 PST (Local Time) Lauren Berger Research suggests that biracials may have poorer mental health than monoracials and a recent meta-analysis (Shih &amp; Sanchez, 2005) cites a lack of research testing potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,13,8,14,20],"tags":[2909,4924],"class_list":["post-11115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identitydevelopment","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-usa","tag-lauren-berger","tag-university-of-california-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}