Abstract
Diversity issues such as multicultural competence and sexual health competence have received increased but separate academic attention in recent years. Although empirical support has been found for the presence of racial biases in the diagnoses of mental health disorders, there is no evidence to date regarding the role of racial biases in the diagnoses of female sexual pathology. In the present study, 101 pre-doctoral psychology interns across the United States assessed the symptom severity of a fictional client via online vignettes in which client race was experimentally manipulated. Participants did not report significantly different symptom severity ratings between the vignettes featuring a White client and the vignettes featuring a Black client. Future research should examine service-provider competence among more diverse samples, as well as pedagogical practices within psychology training programs that may be implicated in these results.
Advisor
Eric Sprankle
Committee Member
Shannon Miller
Committee Member
Moses Langley
Date of Degree
2016
Language
english
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Psychology
College
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Sanjeevi, J. (2016). Perceptions of Female Sexual Pathology: The Role of Racial Biases in Clinical Decision Making [Master’s thesis, Minnesota State University, Mankato]. Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works for Minnesota State University, Mankato. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/etds/648/
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