Re-Examining the Relationship Between Black Racial Identity and Self-Esteem Using Person- and Variable-Centered Approaches

Ashley M. Ryan, Shannon Chavez-Korell, Beverly J. Vandiver, Department of Psychological Services, Montgomery County Public Schools, Division of Theoretical and Behavioral Foundations, Wayne State University, Department of Human Sciences, The Ohio State University

Journal of Black Psychology

Published online on March 09, 2026

Abstract

Journal of Black Psychology, Ahead of Print.
We examined the relationship between two types of self-esteem (global self-esteem and collective self-esteem) and Black racial identity based on the expanded nigrescence theory (NT-E). Black college students (N= 344) responded to the Cross Racial ...