Abstract

The purpose of the descriptive research was to investigate the relationship between an adherence to the Black community's belief and value system about Black skin tones and Black school-age children's skin tone preferences and perceptions of occupational life opportunities. Six Black skin tones were scaled via Thurstone's method of paired comparisons and the law of comparative judgment. The result was an interval level Skin Tone Scale on which the skin tones were positioned from most to least preferred by the children. The most preferred skin tones ranged from medium to honey brown. The least preferred were the extreme tones of very light yellow and very dark brown. Data collection was accomplished with the Porter Skin Tone Connotation Scale (PSTCS). The instrument was constructed from the forced choice preference paradigm. Data were obtained from a volunteer sample of 98 Black school-age children who resided in a city in Arizona. Data collection and analyses were constructed to test two hypotheses: 1) Black school-age children's skin tone classifications for differential status occupations will be related to gender, age, and perception of own skin tone as indexed by the skin tone values of the Skin Tone Scale, and 2) with increasing age, Black school-age children's skin tone preferences will be more systematically related to the skin tone values of the Skin Tone Scale.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 8522821; ProQuest document ID: 303381559. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Cornelia Pauline Porter, PhD, FAAN

Sigma Membership

Rho Kappa

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Qualitative Study, Other

Research Approach

Mixed/Multi Method Research

Keywords:

Race, Value Systems, Occupational Achievement

Advisors

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Advisor

Agbes M. Aamodt

Second Advisor

Jan R. Atwood

Third Advisor

Gladys E. Sorensen

Fourth Advisor

Joyce A. Verran

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Arizona

Degree Year

1985

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None: Degree-based Submission

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Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2017-01-10

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