Stress versus discrete negative emotions in the prediction of physical complaints: Does predictive utility vary across ethnic groups?

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 541-557

  Consedine, Nathan S ^a   Magai, Carol ^a   Kudadjie Gyamfi, Elizabeth K ^a   Longfellow, Jean Kaluk ^b   Ungar, Tracey M ^b   King, Arlene R ^c  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Intercultural Institute on Human Development and Aging   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete emotions; Ethnic interactions; Ethnicity; Health; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; CARIBBEAN REGION; DEPRESSION; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXPRESSED EMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRESSION; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33747457368     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.12.3.541     Document Type: Article

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