The Moderating Role of Coping Style on Chronic Stress Exposure and Cardiovascular Reactivity Among African American Emerging Adults

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Cavanagh ◽  
Ezemenari M. Obasi
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Chronic Stress ◽  
Cardiovascular Reactivity ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Stress Exposure ◽  
Moderating Role

Racial Discrimination and Trajectories of Problematic Alcohol Use Among African American Emerging Adults: The Role of Organizational Religious Involvement

2021 ◽  
pp. 109019812110516
Author(s):  
Danielle R. Busby ◽  
Meredith O. Hope ◽  
Daniel B. Lee ◽  
Justin E. Heinze ◽  
Marc A. Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Problematic Alcohol ◽  
Stable Class ◽  
Problematic Alcohol Use

Racial discrimination jeopardizes a wide range of health behaviors for African Americans. Numerous studies demonstrate significant negative associations between racial discrimination and problematic alcohol use among African Americans. Culturally specific contexts (e.g., organized religious involvement) often function protectively against racial discrimination’s adverse effects for many African Americans. Yet organized religious involvement may affect the degree to which racial discrimination increases problematic alcohol use resulting in various alcohol use trajectories. These links remain understudied in emerging adulthood marked by when individuals transition from adolescence to early adult roles and responsibilities. We use data from 496 African American emerging adults from the Flint Adolescent Study (FAS) to (a) identify multiple and distinct alcohol use trajectories and (b) examine organizational religious involvement’s protective role. Three trajectory classes were identified: the high/stable, (20.76% of sample; n = 103); moderate/stable, (39.52% of sample; n = 196); and low/rising, (39.72% of the sample; n = 197). After controlling for sex, educational attainment, and general stress, the interaction between racial discrimination and organized religious involvement did not influence the likelihood of classifying into the moderate/stable class or the low/rising class, compared with the high/stable class. These results suggest organized religious involvement counteracts, but does not buffer racial discrimination’s effects on problematic alcohol use. Findings emphasize the critical need for culturally sensitive prevention efforts incorporating organized religious involvement for African American emerging adults exposed to racial discrimination. These prevention efforts may lessen the role of racial discrimination on health disparities related to alcohol use.

scholarly journals The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between School Climate and Self-Esteem for African American Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-305
Author(s):  
Amy E. Fisher ◽  
Sycarah Fisher ◽  
Chelsea Arsenault ◽  
Rachel Jacob ◽  
Jessica Barnes-Najor
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
School Climate ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

scholarly journals The Moderating Role of Gender in the Relationship Between Tobacco Outlet Exposure and Tobacco Use Among African American Young Adults

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiana Brown ◽  
Adam J. Milam ◽  
Janice V. Bowie ◽  
Nicholas S. Ialongo ◽  
Darrell J. Gaskin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
African American ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
American Young Adults

scholarly journals Exposure to bullying behaviors at work and subsequent symptoms of anxiety: the moderating role of individual coping style

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 421-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iselin REKNES ◽  
Ståle EINARSEN ◽  
Ståle PALLESEN ◽  
Bjørn BJORVATN ◽  
Bente Elisabeth MOEN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coping Style ◽  
Bullying Behaviors ◽  
Moderating Role

scholarly journals Differential Impact of Stress Reduction Programs upon Ambulatory Blood Pressure among African American Adolescents: Influences of Endothelin-1 Gene and Chronic Stress Exposure

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathew J. Gregoski ◽  
Vernon A. Barnes ◽  
Martha S. Tingen ◽  
Yanbin Dong ◽  
Haidong Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
African American ◽  
Chronic Stress ◽  
Behavioral Interventions ◽  
High Stress ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Stress Exposure ◽  
Endothelin 1

Stress-activated gene × environment interactions may contribute to individual variability in blood pressure reductions from behavioral interventions. We investigated effects of endothelin-1 (ET-1) LYS198ASN SNP and discriminatory stress exposure upon impact of 12-week behavioral interventions upon ambulatory BP (ABP) among 162 prehypertensive African American adolescents. Following genotyping, completion of questionnaire battery, and 24-hour ABP monitoring, participants were randomized to health education control (HEC), life skills training (LST), or breathing awareness meditation (BAM). Postintervention ABP was obtained. Significant three-way interactions on ABP changes indicated that among ET-1 SNP carriers, the only group to show reductions was BAM from low chronic stress environments. Among ET-1 SNP noncarriers, under low chronic stress exposure, all approaches worked, especially BAM. Among high stress exposure noncarriers, only BAM resulted in reductions. If these preliminary findings are replicated via ancillary analyses of archival databases and then via efficacy trials, selection of behavioral prescriptions for prehypertensives will be edging closer to being guided by individual's underlying genetic and environmental factors incorporating the healthcare model of personalized preventive medicine.

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