Childhood Socioeconomic Status Is Associated With Psychosocial Resources in African Americans: The Pittsburgh Healthy Heart Project

Health Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 472-480

  Beatty, Danielle L ^a   Kamarck, Thomas W ^a   Matthews, Karen A ^a   Shiffman, Saul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood socioeconomic status; Health; Psychosocial resources; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTRONICS; EMOTION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLANNING; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RACE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79960494352     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024304     Document Type: Article

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