Cultural congruity, womanist identity attitudes, and life satisfaction among African American college women attending historically black and predominantly white institutions

We examined cultural congruity, womanist identify attitudes, and life satisfaction among 165 African American women attending historically Black and predominantly White colleges and universities. We found that African American students at historically Black institutions reported higher levels of cultural congruity, and life satisfaction than their counterparts attending predominantly White institutions. Findings also revealed that womanist identify attitudes might partially mediate the relationship between these women cultural congruity scores and life satisfaction scores. Implications of the findings for college student personnel are discussed.