The Biological Effects of Microaggressions on African Americans
Faculty Sponsor
Jim Nelson
College
Arts and Sciences
Discipline(s)
Psychology
Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Symposium Date
Summer 7-28-2016
Abstract
Many US minority groups experience frequent and casual negative interactions known as microaggressions. The purpose of this research is to determine how significantly a person's mental health is effected due to microaggressions. I will conduct this research using a subject group of African American students at Valparaiso University. I will provide them with a rating scale to determine if a person has actually encountered microaggressions. Subjects will be divided into two groups, according to whether they have been frequently or infrequently confronted with microaggressions, and from there on I will determine how microaggressions affected their mental health overall. Group comparison, linear modeling and other statistical procedures will be used to test for significant effects.
Recommended Citation
Banks, Asia, "The Biological Effects of Microaggressions on African Americans" (2016). Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 561.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/cus/561
Biographical Information about Author(s)
I was born in the south suburbs of Chicago. My family is well off, as I had the privilege to attend private school for grade school, high school, and now college. However, growing up in predominately white schools, I was forced to encounter microaggressions, although at the time I wasn't aware of the impositions my classmates were forcing upon me. So, throughout research, it's interesting to understand what effect microaggressions has on an individual.