The relationship of racism to appraisals and coping in a community sample

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4 SUPPL. 5, 2005, Pages

  Brondolo, Elizabeth ^a   Thompson, Shola ^a   Brady, Nisha ^a   Appel, Risa ^a   Cassells, Andrea ^b   Tobin, Jonathan N ^b   Sweeney, Monica ^c  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Clinical Directors Network   (United States)

^c Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Appraisals; Coping; Ethnicity related stress; Racism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFESPAN; LITERATURE; MALE; MOOD; NEGRO; PERSONALITY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACISM; SOCIAL ISOLATION; THREAT; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 29244484427     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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