Specific coping strategies of Africans during urbanization: Comparing cardiovascular responses and perception of health data

Biological Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 305-310

  Malan, Leoné ^a   Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth ^a   Malan, Nicolaas Theodor ^a   Wissing, Maria Philipina ^a   Vorster, Hester Hendrina ^a   Steyn, Hendrik Stefanus ^a   van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus ^a   Huisman, Hugo Willem ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africans; Coping; Hypertension; Perception of health; Vascular reactivity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HEALTH STATUS; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; URBANIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 33748658476     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2005.11.010     Document Type: Article

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