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SUBMITTER: Michaels EK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6935759 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Michaels Eli K EK Reeves Alexis N AN Thomas Marilyn D MD Price Melisa M MM Hasson Rebecca E RE Chae David H DH Allen Amani M AM
International journal of environmental research and public health 20191127 23
Racial discrimination, a psychosocial stressor, may contribute to disproportionate rates of hypertension among African American women. Coping moderates the effects of psychosocial stress on health. Coping dispositions describe stable personality characteristics, whereas contextual frameworks emphasize flexible coping behaviors in response to specific stressful encounters. Using data from the African American Women's Heart and Health Study-a non-probability cross-section of 208 midlife African Am ...[more]