Black racial identity as a mediator of cardiovascular reactivity to racism in African-American college students

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 108-113

  Clark, Vernessa R ^a   Cobb, Renia E B ^a   Hopkins, Reginald ^a   Smith, Christine E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilationist racial identity; Cardiac output; Private regard racial identity; Racism; Stroke volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMANISM; IDEOLOGY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SOCIAL STATUS; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VIDEORECORDING; ADOLESCENT; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 33745001440     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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