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Implications of an Africentric Worldview in Reducing Stress for African American Women
Author(s) -
Jackson Anita P.,
Sears Susan J.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1992.tb02196.x
Subject(s) - conceptualization , perspective (graphical) , psychology , cognition , cognitive restructuring , mediation , social psychology , stress (linguistics) , afrocentrism , biopsychosocial model , african american , sociology , gender studies , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , social science , ethnology , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science
Despite the extensive research on stress in recent decades, including the emphasis on stress mediation and reduction, epidemiological studies indicate that African American women continue to experience high rates of morbidity and mortality because of stress and stress‐related diseases. With growth in the conceptualization and articulation of an Africentric perspective for defining the functioning of African American people, in this article the authors explore the idea of an Africentric worldview as a means for reducing stress among African American women. Considering that cognitive appraisals define the situations that individuals experience and considering that worldview is the lens through which experience is viewed, restructuring worldview can alter the cognitive appraisals of potential stressful situations. Africentric worldview provides a framework for affirming African American and women's beliefs and behaviors. The authors propose that the framework has the potential to counter the negative images that often result in stressful appraisals of an oppressive and hostile environment.

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