Year: 2008
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The present study sought to extend the literature examining potential antecedents and outcomes of perceived social status identity.Fouad and Brown's (2000) conceptualization of Differential Status Identity was used as a conceptual lens for examining the relation of supports and barriers to an individual's internalization of social status and subsequent career indecisiveness, career choice anxiety, and career decision self-efficacy.This framework offered an opportunity to consider simultaneously the relations of individuals' experiences with external barriers (i.e., experiences with racism and classism) and external and intrapersonal supports (i.e., family/peer support and coping efficacy, respectively) to an individual's internalization of status identity.In line with DSI's conceptualization, status identity was assessed by examining one's perceived access to economic resources, level of social prestige, and level of social power.Data from 299 undergraduate students (67.9% female, 55.9%European American) attending a large Midwestern University included responses to measures of status identity, career decision-making, and experiences with supports and barriers.Results supported a number of the proposed relations and provided initial evidence of the usefulness of a new measure of experiences with classism created for the present study.In particular, results indicated that frequency of experiences with systemic classism was negatively related to perceived status, frequency of experiences with personal classism were positively related to perceived status, primary caregiver support was positively
Author: Mindi N. Thompson
Institution: University of Akron
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2257765854