Goal-Striving Stress and Racial Differences in Mental Health

Race and Social Problems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-62

  Neighbors, Harold W ^a   Sellers, Sherrill L ^b   Zhang, Rong ^a   Jackson, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black white differences in mental health; Goal striving stress; Racial related stressors; Stress process

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053597589     PISSN: 18671748     EISSN: 18671756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12552-011-9042-6     Document Type: Article

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