Striving While Black: Race and the Psychophysiology of Goal Pursuit
Striving While Black: Race and the Psychophysiology of Goal Pursuit
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DOI：
10.1177/0022146520901695
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发表时间：
2020-02-05
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5
通讯作者：
DeAngelis, Reed T.
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作者：
DeAngelis, Reed T.
人口健康科学家在很大程度上忽视了预期压力源以及不同人群如何体验和应对预期压力。我解决这些差距，通过检查一个重要的预期压力目标努力的压力（GSS）和心理生理学的几个措施之间的关联的黑人和白人的差异。使用来自纳什维尔压力与健康研究（2011 - 2014）的自我报告和生物标志物数据对关注GSS和心理生理学种族差异的假设进行了测试，该研究是对田纳西州戴维森县黑人和白色工作年龄成年人（n = 1，252）进行的横断面概率调查。与他们的白色同龄人相比，具有较高GSS的黑人报告更大的自尊和更少的抑郁和焦虑症状。然而，GSS增加也预示着高努力应对水平的升高（即，约翰·亨利主义），神经内分泌应激激素，黑人的血压，而不是白人。我讨论了这些研究结果的影响感兴趣的学者的压力过程和更广泛的黑人，白人在美国的健康不平等。
Population health scientists have largely overlooked anticipatory stressors and how different groups of people experience and cope with anticipatory stress. I address these gaps by examining black-white differences in the associations between an important anticipatory stressor-goal-striving stress (GSS)-and several measures of psychophysiology. Hypotheses focusing on racial differences in GSS and psychophysiology are tested using self-report and biomarker data from the Nashville Stress and Health Study (2011-2014), a cross-sectional probability survey of black and white working-age adults from Davidson County, Tennessee (n = 1,252). Compared to their white peers, blacks with higher GSS report greater self-esteem and fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety. However, increased GSS also predicts elevated levels of high-effort coping (i.e., John Henryism), neuroendocrine stress hormones, and blood pressure for blacks but not whites. I discuss the implications of these findings for scholars interested in the stress process and broader black-white health inequalities in the United States.