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Educating Across Difference: Underrepresented Groups, Graduate Program Integration, and Persistence-Related Attitudes among Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students

Hamilton, Rachel Ann
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1249026598

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2009, Master of Arts, Miami University, Psychology.
Drawing on Tinto’s (1975, 1987, 1993) interactionalist model of student attrition, this survey study examined students’ cultural differences from dominant graduate communities, integration in graduate programs, and attitudes towards educational persistence. Cultural differences were assessed by a measure of cumulative diversity, which summed students’ number of memberships across traditionally underrepresented demographic groups. Integration was assessed by measures of advisor/mentor satisfaction and sense of community in the graduate program. Data from 330 doctoral students in APA-accredited clinical psychology programs showed that cumulative diversity had different effects by sex. Whereas cumulative diversity was unrelated to integration or persistence-related attitudes for women, it was related to less favorable integration and persistence-related attitudes for men. Integration, particularly sense of program community, was an important predictor of persistence-related attitudes for both genders. Sense of program community mediated the relationship between cumulative diversity and persistence-related attitudes for men only. Implications for student retention are discussed.
William Stiles, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Margaret O’Dougherty Wright, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Elisa Abes, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
148 p.
Health Education; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Psychology
doctoral education; graduate programs; graduate students; clinical psychology; educational persistence; attrition; cultural diversity; minorities; traditionally underrepresented groups; interactionalist model; social and academic integration

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  • Hamilton, R. A. (2009). Educating Across Difference: Underrepresented Groups, Graduate Program Integration, and Persistence-Related Attitudes among Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1249026598

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hamilton, Rachel. Educating Across Difference: Underrepresented Groups, Graduate Program Integration, and Persistence-Related Attitudes among Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students. 2009. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1249026598.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hamilton, Rachel. "Educating Across Difference: Underrepresented Groups, Graduate Program Integration, and Persistence-Related Attitudes among Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1249026598

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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