Recent investigations have elucidated the influence of the Strong Black Woman (SBW)
Schema on the mental health and treatment seeking behaviors of Black women in the …

The Strong Black Woman Schema (SBWS) is a cultural expectation for Black women to
unfailingly display signs of strength and caretaker qualities, while suppressing their …

The Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema has been consistently linked to negative mental
health outcomes among Black women. However, few have begun to explicate the …

The internalization of the Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema is associated with negative
psychological outcomes. However, not much is known about the mechanisms through which …

Black feminist scholars posit that the Strong Black Woman stereotype (SBW) is a compelling
image that depicts Black women as strong, independent, and self-sacrificing. Research …

Research indicates that Black women highly endorse the Strong Black Woman (SBW)
stereotype—a perception that Black women are naturally strong, resilient, self-contained …

Across varied disciplines, attempts have been made to capture the multidimensionality of
Black womanhood under a unifying framework illustrative of Black women's perceived roles …

Although strength is often embraced as a vital aspect of African American womanhood,
African American women's endorsement of the strong Black woman race-gender schema …

Stereotyping Black women as servant,“the mammy” is a well-known racial and gender
stereotype and, if internalized, can decrease mental and physical health. Recreated via the …

Black girls are socialized to be “strong” under the premise that strength will serve as a
means of psychological resistance to oppression prevalent within American society …