Sensitivity in a positive direction as pre- dicted; immersion attitudes were also sig- nificantly positively related, suggesting that high levels of preencounter and immersion attitudes were likely to be related to feelings of inferiority, personal inadequacy, and hy- persensitivity.
In the regression analysis in which anxiety scores were used as the dependent variable to test the hyothesis that encounter attitudes would be positively associated with feelings of anxiety, the 8% of the variance explained by racial identity attitudes was significant, F(4,161) = 3.53, p < .05. Encounter atti- tudes were significantly related to feelings of anxiety, but in a negative direction. In addition, both preencounter and immersion attitudes were positively related to anxiety, although no specific hypotheses about these attitudes have been proposed. The test of the hypothesis that feelings of anger would be positively related to immer- sion attitudes revealed no significant effect due to the combination of racial identity attitudes, F(4,161) = 1.32, p > .05. How- ever, the Immersion attitude scale was a significant predictor of anger (Hostility scale). The direction of the beta weight suggested that problack-antiwhite attitudes were likely to be associated with feelings of anger or hostility as predicted.
The overall regression model, testing the hypothesis that feelings of self-acceptance would be predicted by internalization atti- tudes, barely missed significance, F(4,161) = 2.42, p = .06. Examination of its beta weight indicated that internalization atti- tudes were not significantly related to feel- ings of self-acceptance. Because the overall model was nearly significant (an F of 2.425 was necessary for significance at the .05 level), we also examined the beta weights for the other attitudes. Preencounter attitudes were inversely related to self-acceptance, indicating that prowhite-antiblack attitudes were indicative of difficulty in accepting oneself in spite of the absence of identifica- tion with one’s ascribed racial group. En- counter attitudes were positively related to feelings of self-acceptance, indicating that making a decision to question previously held negative assumptions about blackness may be indicative of emerging feelings of self-acceptance. The final hypothesis that obsessiveness would be related to encounter attitudes was not supported by the obtained results, F(l, 161) = 0.43, ns; the overall model also lacked significance, F(4, 161) = 1.14, ns.
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