The developmental of a race and gender-specific stress measure for African-American women: Jackson, Hogue, Phillips contextualized stress measure

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 594-600

  Jackson, Fleda Mask ^a   Hogue, Carol Rowland ^a   Phillips, Mona Taylor ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American women; Gendered oppression; Grounded theory; Identity stressors; Racism; Stress; Stress mediators

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; JACKSON HOGUE PHILLIPS STRESS MEASURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; RESPONSIBILITY; SEX ROLE; STRESS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ANGER; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORK;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANGER; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORK;

EID: 27844511487     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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