Racial discrimination, the superwoman schema, and allostatic load: exploring an integrative stress-coping model among African American women

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1457, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 104-127

  Allen, Amani M ^a   Wang, Yijie ^b   Chae, David H ^c   Price, Melisa M ^d   Powell, Wizdom ^e   Steed, Teneka C ^f   Rose Black, Angela ^g   Dhabhar, Firdaus S ^h   Marquez Magaña, Leticia ⁱ   Woods Giscombe, Cheryl L ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

ⁱ SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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Author keywords

African American; allostatic load; coping; racial discrimination; racial health disparities; stress; women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTIVATION; PATH ANALYSIS; RACISM; SKIN; STRESS; ALLOSTASIS; BLOOD; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALLOSTASIS; BIOMARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; RACISM; RISK; SAN FRANCISCO; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 85076382755     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14188     Document Type: Article

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