Open AccessMediators of the relationship between race and allostatic load in African and White Americans.
Author(s) -
Lianne M. Tomfohr,
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 , allostatic load , psycinfo , clinical psychology , psychosocial , psychology , affect (linguistics) , demography , gerontology , mediation , 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.