Linda James Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3791964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda James Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda James |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4588-3607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Ancestors are Pleased: The Scholarly and Mentoring Contributions of Suzette Speight
For some, social justice is a value. For others, it is an action verb and how they enact their values daily. For Dr. Suzette Speight, social justice was core to who she was, which was evident through her many scholarly contributions to counseling psychology, Black psychology, and beyond, through her mentoring and leadership, and through her impact on countless students, peers, and community members. If you knew Suzette, you know she did not hold …
Alternate Cultural Paradigms in Psychology: Long Overdue Recognition and Further Articulations
Many ethnic-acknowledging psychology researchers, practitioners, and their allies have expressed dissatisfaction with Eurowestern, mainstream psychology in the United States as it shows serious shortcomings when used to understand and serve minoritized communities. Eurowestern psychology has been criticized for its imperialistic, one-size-fits-all view of humanity. We operationalize such challenge by articulating the construct of alternate cultur…
The Necessity of an Emic Paradigm in Psychology
This article provides an overview of developments in the field of Black/Africana/Pan African psychology over the past 50 years. It has evolved toward production of psychological knowledge grounded in an emic cultural paradigm consistent with the understandings emerging from classical African civilization and across the Diaspora. The historical context for the development of a Black/Africana cultural paradigm is discussed, including an analysis of…
Optimal Theory's Contributions to Understanding and Surmounting Global Challenges to Humanity
In this article, we discuss challenges to and the triumphs of the production of psychological knowledge pertinent to human health and sustainable well-being, particularly as it relates to persons acknowledging African ancestry in hostile sociohistorical contexts. Primary attention will be paid to the advancement of the theory of optimal psychology, also known as optimal conceptual theory (OCT), a theory of human development culturally grounded in…
Restoration of Spirit: An African-Centered Communal Health Model
Collective Self-Esteem and Africultural Coping Styles in African American Adolescents
The authors examine the relationships between dimensions of collective self-esteem and Africultural coping styles in a sample of African American adolescents. They found that African American adolescents with higher public collective self-esteem (i.e., the belief that others feel positively about their cultural group) reported greater use of spiritual-centered Africultural coping styles to deal with stressful situations. Results also revealed tha…
Black Americans' and White Americans' views of the etiology and treatment of mental health problems
Physiological Responses To Anxiety and Stress: Reactions to Oppression, Galvanic Skin Potential, and Heart Rate
The relationship between stress and health has been well established. However, little attention has been paid to extraordinary socio-cultural factors which precipitate stress, such as racism, sexism, etc. In a racist society, one would expect that increased stress and anxiety might be precipitated within those groups toward whom the discrimination is directed. While a common sense analysis would lead to this conclusion, the quantification of data…
The Deep Structure of Culture: Relevance of Traditional African Culture in Contemporary Life
Culture defined as the total way of life of a people, is somewhat indestructible. As long as there are people they will have a way of life. Culture determines quality of life in large measure. The importance of cultural identity to people of African descent has been emphasized repeatedly (Asante, 1983; Cruse, 1967; Karenga, 1983). Part of what is being responded to is what Nobles (1976) describes as the conceptual incarceration of black people in…
A Therapeutic Model for Transcending Oppression: A Black Feminist Perspective
No abstract available for this article
The Effects of World View on Adaptation to Single Parenthood Among Middle-Class Adult Women
The nature of the relationship between middle-class adult women's world view and their report of the quality of their adjustment to being single mothers was explored. Single mothers and those from two-parent families completed five instruments assessing their world view and emotional adjustment to being mothers. The many statistically significant findings indicated that, although there was considerable person-to-person variation, single mothers w…
Transpersonal Psychology: The Role of the Afrocentric Paradigm
Conspicuously absent in the literature of transpersonal psy chology in its search for a paradigm is an exploration of traditional African culture and world view. Such a legacy of omission from philosophical and psychological endeavors is common. This is due to the fact that until recently African culture has been so badly misunderstood because of the imposition of alien world view in its analysis. The unity and integration of knowledge that we se…
The nature of pluralism and the African American case
A truly pluralistic society can never be achieved, much less maintained, without pluralism in education. Despite the fact that many laud pluralism as a worthy goal, its achievement in this society continues to elude us. Pluralism requires that members of diverse ethnic, religious, and racial groups maintain autonomous participation in and development of their traditional culture and special interest within the confines of a common society. Such a…
Collective Self-Esteem and Africultural Coping Styles in African American Adolescents
The authors examine the relationships between dimensions of collective self-esteem and Africultural coping styles in a sample of African American adolescents. They found that African American adolescents with higher public collective self-esteem (i.e., the belief that others feel positively about their cultural group) reported greater use of spiritual-centered Africultural coping styles to deal with stressful situations. Results also revealed tha…
Optimal Theory's Contributions to Understanding and Surmounting Global Challenges to Humanity
In this article, we discuss challenges to and the triumphs of the production of psychological knowledge pertinent to human health and sustainable well-being, particularly as it relates to persons acknowledging African ancestry in hostile sociohistorical contexts. Primary attention will be paid to the advancement of the theory of optimal psychology, also known as optimal conceptual theory (OCT), a theory of human development culturally grounded in…
Transpersonal Psychology: The Role of the Afrocentric Paradigm
Conspicuously absent in the literature of transpersonal psy chology in its search for a paradigm is an exploration of traditional African culture and world view. Such a legacy of omission from philosophical and psychological endeavors is common. This is due to the fact that until recently African culture has been so badly misunderstood because of the imposition of alien world view in its analysis. The unity and integration of knowledge that we se…
Restoration of Spirit: An African-Centered Communal Health Model
Black Americans' and White Americans' views of the etiology and treatment of mental health problems
The Effects of World View on Adaptation to Single Parenthood Among Middle-Class Adult Women
The nature of the relationship between middle-class adult women's world view and their report of the quality of their adjustment to being single mothers was explored. Single mothers and those from two-parent families completed five instruments assessing their world view and emotional adjustment to being mothers. The many statistically significant findings indicated that, although there was considerable person-to-person variation, single mothers w…
A Therapeutic Model for Transcending Oppression: A Black Feminist Perspective
No abstract available for this article
The Necessity of an Emic Paradigm in Psychology
This article provides an overview of developments in the field of Black/Africana/Pan African psychology over the past 50 years. It has evolved toward production of psychological knowledge grounded in an emic cultural paradigm consistent with the understandings emerging from classical African civilization and across the Diaspora. The historical context for the development of a Black/Africana cultural paradigm is discussed, including an analysis of…
The nature of pluralism and the African American case
A truly pluralistic society can never be achieved, much less maintained, without pluralism in education. Despite the fact that many laud pluralism as a worthy goal, its achievement in this society continues to elude us. Pluralism requires that members of diverse ethnic, religious, and racial groups maintain autonomous participation in and development of their traditional culture and special interest within the confines of a common society. Such a…
Alternate Cultural Paradigms in Psychology: Long Overdue Recognition and Further Articulations
Many ethnic-acknowledging psychology researchers, practitioners, and their allies have expressed dissatisfaction with Eurowestern, mainstream psychology in the United States as it shows serious shortcomings when used to understand and serve minoritized communities. Eurowestern psychology has been criticized for its imperialistic, one-size-fits-all view of humanity. We operationalize such challenge by articulating the construct of alternate cultur…
Physiological Responses To Anxiety and Stress: Reactions to Oppression, Galvanic Skin Potential, and Heart Rate
The relationship between stress and health has been well established. However, little attention has been paid to extraordinary socio-cultural factors which precipitate stress, such as racism, sexism, etc. In a racist society, one would expect that increased stress and anxiety might be precipitated within those groups toward whom the discrimination is directed. While a common sense analysis would lead to this conclusion, the quantification of data…
The nature of pluralism and the African American case
A truly pluralistic society can never be achieved, much less maintained, without pluralism in education. Despite the fact that many laud pluralism as a worthy goal, its achievement in this society continues to elude us. Pluralism requires that members of diverse ethnic, religious, and racial groups maintain autonomous participation in and development of their traditional culture and special interest within the confines of a common society. Such a…
The Effects of World View on Adaptation to Single Parenthood Among Middle-Class Adult Women
The nature of the relationship between middle-class adult women's world view and their report of the quality of their adjustment to being single mothers was explored. Single mothers and those from two-parent families completed five instruments assessing their world view and emotional adjustment to being mothers. The many statistically significant findings indicated that, although there was considerable person-to-person variation, single mothers w…
Transpersonal Psychology: The Role of the Afrocentric Paradigm
Conspicuously absent in the literature of transpersonal psy chology in its search for a paradigm is an exploration of traditional African culture and world view. Such a legacy of omission from philosophical and psychological endeavors is common. This is due to the fact that until recently African culture has been so badly misunderstood because of the imposition of alien world view in its analysis. The unity and integration of knowledge that we se…
The Deep Structure of Culture: Relevance of Traditional African Culture in Contemporary Life
Culture defined as the total way of life of a people, is somewhat indestructible. As long as there are people they will have a way of life. Culture determines quality of life in large measure. The importance of cultural identity to people of African descent has been emphasized repeatedly (Asante, 1983; Cruse, 1967; Karenga, 1983). Part of what is being responded to is what Nobles (1976) describes as the conceptual incarceration of black people in…
A Therapeutic Model for Transcending Oppression: A Black Feminist Perspective
No abstract available for this article
Physiological Responses To Anxiety and Stress: Reactions to Oppression, Galvanic Skin Potential, and Heart Rate
The relationship between stress and health has been well established. However, little attention has been paid to extraordinary socio-cultural factors which precipitate stress, such as racism, sexism, etc. In a racist society, one would expect that increased stress and anxiety might be precipitated within those groups toward whom the discrimination is directed. While a common sense analysis would lead to this conclusion, the quantification of data…
Black Americans' and White Americans' views of the etiology and treatment of mental health problems
Collective Self-Esteem and Africultural Coping Styles in African American Adolescents
The authors examine the relationships between dimensions of collective self-esteem and Africultural coping styles in a sample of African American adolescents. They found that African American adolescents with higher public collective self-esteem (i.e., the belief that others feel positively about their cultural group) reported greater use of spiritual-centered Africultural coping styles to deal with stressful situations. Results also revealed tha…
Restoration of Spirit: An African-Centered Communal Health Model
Optimal Theory's Contributions to Understanding and Surmounting Global Challenges to Humanity
In this article, we discuss challenges to and the triumphs of the production of psychological knowledge pertinent to human health and sustainable well-being, particularly as it relates to persons acknowledging African ancestry in hostile sociohistorical contexts. Primary attention will be paid to the advancement of the theory of optimal psychology, also known as optimal conceptual theory (OCT), a theory of human development culturally grounded in…
Alternate Cultural Paradigms in Psychology: Long Overdue Recognition and Further Articulations
Many ethnic-acknowledging psychology researchers, practitioners, and their allies have expressed dissatisfaction with Eurowestern, mainstream psychology in the United States as it shows serious shortcomings when used to understand and serve minoritized communities. Eurowestern psychology has been criticized for its imperialistic, one-size-fits-all view of humanity. We operationalize such challenge by articulating the construct of alternate cultur…
The Necessity of an Emic Paradigm in Psychology
This article provides an overview of developments in the field of Black/Africana/Pan African psychology over the past 50 years. It has evolved toward production of psychological knowledge grounded in an emic cultural paradigm consistent with the understandings emerging from classical African civilization and across the Diaspora. The historical context for the development of a Black/Africana cultural paradigm is discussed, including an analysis of…
The Ancestors are Pleased: The Scholarly and Mentoring Contributions of Suzette Speight
For some, social justice is a value. For others, it is an action verb and how they enact their values daily. For Dr. Suzette Speight, social justice was core to who she was, which was evident through her many scholarly contributions to counseling psychology, Black psychology, and beyond, through her mentoring and leadership, and through her impact on countless students, peers, and community members. If you knew Suzette, you know she did not hold …
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works)