Mediators of the relationship between race and allostatic load in African and White Americans. | Zendy

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Mediators of the relationship between race and allostatic load in African and White Americans.

Author(s) -

Lianne TomfohrMadsen,

Meredith A. Pung,

Joel E. Dimsdale

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

health psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.548

H-Index - 164

eISSN - 1930-7810

pISSN - 0278-6133

DOI - 10.1037/hea0000251

Subject(s) - anger , clinical psychology , allostatic load , psycinfo , psychology , affect (linguistics) , psychosocial , mediation , demography , gerontology , medicine , social support , psychiatry , medline , social psychology , communication , sociology , political science , law

Allostatic load (AL) is a cumulative index of physiological dysregulation, which has been shown to predict cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. On average, African Americans (AA) have higher AL than their White American (WA) counterparts. This study investigated whether differences in discrimination, negative affect-related variables (e.g., experience and expression of anger, depression), and health practices (e.g., exercise, alcohol use, smoking, subjective sleep quality) mediate racial differences in AL.

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