Communalism predicts prenatal affect, stress, and physiology better than ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 395-403

  Abdou, Cleopatra M ^a   Dunkel Schetter, Christine ^b   Campos, Belinda ^c   Hilmert, Clayton J ^d   Dominguez, Tyan Parker ^e   Hobel, Calvin J ^f   Glynn, Laura M ^c   Sandman, Curt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Communalism; Culture; Health disparities; Pregnancy; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMMUNALISM; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OPTIMISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRENATAL PERIOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS;

ADULT; AFFECT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955367126     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: 19390106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019808     Document Type: Article

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