Date of Award
2001
Degree Name
School Psychology
College
College of Liberal Arts
Type of Degree
M.A.
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
Elizabeth Kelley Boyles
Second Advisor
Fred Jay Krieg
Third Advisor
Beverly Farrow
Fourth Advisor
Stephen L. O’Keefe
Fifth Advisor
Leonard J. Deutsch
Abstract
The relationship between race students’ perceptions of threat was examined using an examiner-made questionnaire with WV 6th, 9th, and 12th grade students. Eleven ambiguous scenarios and eight demographic questions were rated to measure the level of threat perceived by subjects. The results indicated that both Minority and Caucasian students found both black and white students the threatening.
Subject(s)
Danger perception – Race identity.
School violence.
Recommended Citation
Layne, Corey R., "Race vs. threat: how teens perceive violence as a function of race" (2001). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 1693.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/1693
