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Citations
9444
World Ranking
7186
National Ranking
3889

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Kevin Cokley is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences and psychology, with significant contributions in sociology and political science, clinical psychology, education, social psychology, and public health.

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Critical Race Theory in Education
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Early Childhood Education and Development

Kevin Cokley has authored and co-authored several papers, notable among them:

  • The COVID-19/racial injustice syndemic and mental health among Black Americans: The roles of general and race-related COVID worry, cultural mistrust, and perceived discrimination (2021), Journal of Community Psychology
  • Impostor Phenomenon in Racially/Ethnically Minoritized Groups: Current Knowledge and Future Directions (2024), Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Additional frequently cited papers in the collection, though authored by others, relate contextually to Cokley's fields of interest and include work published in venues such as American Psychologist and Journal of Black Psychology.

The most frequent publication venues for Kevin Cokley include:

  • Journal of Black Psychology
  • American Psychologist
  • Journal of Community Psychology
  • JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Frequent collaborators in Kevin Cokley's research encompass:

  • Keoshia Harris
  • Shaina Hall
  • Nolan Krueger
  • Carly Coleman
  • Ramya Garba

Kevin Cokley has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association since 2011.

Best Publications

  • Critical Issues in the Measurement of Ethnic and Racial Identity: A Referendum on the State of the Field

    Kevin O Cokley

  • Prevalence, Predictors, and Treatment of Impostor Syndrome: a Systematic Review

    Dena M. Bravata;Sharon A. Watts;Autumn L. Keefer;Divya K. Madhusudhan

  • An Investigation of Academic Self-Concept and its Relationship to Academic Achievement in African American College Students:

    Kevin Cokley

  • An Examination of the Impact of Minority Status Stress and Impostor Feelings on the Mental Health of Diverse Ethnic Minority College Students

    Kevin O Cokley;Shannon McClain;Alicia Enciso;Mercedes Martinez

  • Cross's nigrescence model: From theory to scale to theory

    Beverly J. Vandiver;Peony E. Fhagen-Smith;Kevin O. Cokley;William E. Cross

  • A Psychometric Investigation of the Academic Motivation Scale Using a United States Sample.

    Kevin O. Cokley;Naijean Bernard;Dana Cunningham;Janice Motoike

  • What Do We Know about the Motivation of African American Students? Challenging the "Anti-Intellectual" Myth.

    Kevin O. Cokley

  • Racial(ized) Identity, Ethnic Identity, and Afrocentric Values: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in Understanding African American Identity

    Kevin O. Cokley

  • Testing Cross's revised racial identity model: An examination of the relationship between racial identity and internalized racialism.

    Kevin O. Cokley

  • Ethnicity, gender, and academic self-concept: a preliminary examination of academic disidentification and implications for psychologists.

    Kevin O. Cokley

  • Impostor feelings as a moderator and mediator of the relationship between perceived discrimination and mental health among racial/ethnic minority college students.

    Kevin Cokley;Leann Smith;Donte Bernard;Ashley Hurst

  • The roles of ethnic identity, anti-white attitudes, and academic self-concept in African American student achievement

    Kevin O. Cokley;Collette Chapman

  • A Preliminary Investigation of Academic Disidentification, Racial Identity, and Academic Achievement Among African American Adolescents

    Kevin Cokley;Shannon McClain;Martinique Jones;Samoan Johnson

  • In Defense of Quantitative Methods: Using the “Master’s Tools” to Promote Social Justice

    Kevin Cokley;Germine H. Awad

  • An Examination of the Impact of Racial and Ethnic Identity, Impostor Feelings, and Minority Status Stress on the Mental Health of Black College Students

    Shannon McClain;Samuel T. Beasley;Samuel T. Beasley;Bianca Jones;Bianca Jones;Olufunke Awosogba

  • Attitudes toward affirmative action: A comparison of color-blind versus modern racist attitudes

    Germine H Awad;Kevin O Cokley;Joseph Ravitch

  • Gender differences among African American students in the impact of racial identity on academic psychosocial development

    Kevin O. Cokley

  • The Roles of Gender Stigma Consciousness, Impostor Phenomenon and Academic Self-Concept in the Academic Outcomes of Women and Men

    Kevin O Cokley;Germine H Awad;Leann Smith;Stacey Jackson

  • Horizontal and vertical dimensions of individualism-collectivism: a comparison of African Americans and European Americans.

    Meera Komarraju;Kevin O Cokley

  • Ethnic Minority-Majority Status and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Perceived Discrimination

    Kevin Cokley;Brittany Hall-Clark;Dana Hicks

  • Examining the validity of the Academic Motivation Scale by comparing scale construction to self-determination theory.

    Kevin O. Cokley

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank C. Worrell
Frank C. Worrell University of California, Berkeley
Anneliese A. Singh
Anneliese A. Singh Tulane University
Y. Joel Wong
Y. Joel Wong Indiana University

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