WOMANIST IDENTITY AND MENTAL-HEALTH

The authors explored the relationship between Helms's ''womanist ident ity'' attitudes and the mental health of Black and White women. Result s showed that Black and White women have different patterns of respons es to both womanist and mental health scales. For White women in the s ample, Immersion-Emersion and, to a lesser extent. Encounter attitudes were related to 7 types of psychological symptomatology. For Black wo men, no such relationship between womanist attitudes and mental health was found.