Harriette Mcadoo

Biographic Data

ID238450
NAMEHarriette Mcadoo
GIVEN NAMESHarriette
FAMILY NAMEMcadoo
SIGNATUREMCADOO H
AFFILIATIONSMichigan State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS49
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1952
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX3

  • An Evaluation Study of the Young Empowered Sisters (YES!) Program

    Open AccessOseela Thomas, William S Davidson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology2008Cited by: 15References: 51

    The present study examines the effects of a culturally relevant school-based intervention in promoting cultural assets (i.e., ethnic identity, collectivist orientation, racism awareness, and libratory youth activism) among a group of African American adolescent girls. The overall goal of the intervention was to promote cultural factors that can protect African American youth from the adverse effects of racism. A total of 74 African American girls…

  • Black Families

    Harriette Pipes Mcadoo, Harriette McadooBOOKBlack Families2007

  • Family and child influences on educational attainment

    Tom Luster, Harriette Pipes Mcadoo et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1996Cited by: 30References: 2

    The central question addressed in this study was, What factors contribute to individual differences in the educational attainment of African American young adults from families of low socioeconomic status ? A secondary analysis of the Perry Preschool data set was conducted. Unlike earlier studies that focused on the effects of preschool on the Perry participants, this study focused on the influence of family and child characteristics on education…

  • A Preliminary Study of Family Values of the Women of Zimbabwe

    Open AccessHarriette Pipes Mcadoo, Harriette Mcadoo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology1993Cited by: 4References: 2

    The values held by women who live in Harare, Zimbabwe were examined as those values were expressed in the proverbs used by the Shona people in Zimbabwe. Proverbs were used earlier with AfricanAmerican women to obtain assessments of values. With the assistance of a panel of experts, 15 proverbs were selected from a book of 1,000 Shona proverbs. The proverbs were found to be equivalent to 15 of the 30 proverbs that had been used in an original list…

  • Black Women in the Labor Force

    Harriette Pipes Mcadoo, Harriette Mcadoo et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1982

    In analyzing the recent economic literature on black women workers, this book offers forthright recommendations for improving their status in the labor market.Black Women in the Labor Force serves as a welcome balance to the disproportionate efforts devoted to research on black women outside the labor force, particularly welfare recipients. At the same time it fills a significant gap by providing a comprehensive and detailed study of this large s…

  • Oral History as a Primary Resource in Educational Research

    Harriette McadooARTICLEThe Journal of Negro Education1980

    Traditionally, educational researchers have based their findings on strictly quantifiable data, usually obtained through the use of standardized tests, interview schedules, or surveys that have been designed by the researcher. Generally, there is an unwritten assumption that to be valid a research project must be as close as possible to being an experimental design. Most of us share this feeling (because of our training at the doctoral level) alt…

  • The Johari Window Test

    Open AccessRonald P Esposito, Harriette Mcadoo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Humanistic Psychology1978

  • Family therapy in the Black community

    Harriette Pipes Mcadoo, Harriette McadooARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry1977References: 1

    Black, upwardly mobile families face all the stresses experienced by other families dealing with developmental crises and economic changes, but are subject to the additional strain of discrimination. Support, often unavailable from the community, is received instead from the family and others involved in the kinship network. Treatment strategies designed for the unique situation of the black family are proposed

  • Can Personnel Researchers Test and Train Themselves in Statistics

    Open AccessDonald E Baier, H H Harman et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1952