scholarly journals Attachment, Emotion, and Physiological Coregulation Among Elderly Mothers and Their Adult Daughters

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 253-253
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Jain ◽  
Gisela Labouvie-Vief ◽  
Mark Lumley
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Adult Daughters ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Caucasian Women ◽  
Attachment Dimensions ◽  
Dynamic Interplay

Abstract Examination of physiological coregulation among marital partners suggests a dynamic interplay between partner physiology. Further, attachment dimensions of anxiety and avoidance mediate this coregulation during conflict. This study examined the role of attachment and race in predicting physiological coregulation for mothers and their adult daughters during emotional discussions. A sample of 23 African American and 17 Caucasian mother-daughter pairs (aged 26 to 83) completed interview sessions and Relationships Questionnaires. Pairs engaged in discussions (neutral, conflict, happy), while monitoring heart rate. HR difference scores were computed between pairs (bps; 0 meant no difference). Multiple Regressions revealed attachment anxiety and avoidance predicted HR variation between pairs for the neutral and happy discussions, differently by racial group (F(7,33)=3.297, p < 0.01). For African American women, increased anxiety predicted increased HR variation during neutral and happy discussions, whereas for Caucasian women, increased avoidance predicted increased HR variation. However, during conflict anxiety singularly predicted increased HR covariation (b = 5.03, p = 0.01), for both groups. Low anxiety and low avoidance predicted physiological coregulation (lower HR variance between pairs). Increased anxious attachment predicted partner dysregulation (increased HR variation between pairs) across all 3 discussions, moderated by avoidance for the Caucasian women. Results suggest attachment plays a role in regulating physiology under emotional stress, and that there may be important cultural differences in this relationship. Further examination will explore the dynamic interplay between attachment and physiological coregulation across adulthood and later life.

scholarly journals The Role of Spiritual Health Locus of Control in Breast Cancer Information Processing between African American and Caucasian Women

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 117863370600100
Author(s):  
Glenn Leshner ◽  
I-Huei Cheng ◽  
Hyun Joo Song ◽  
Yoonhyueng Choi ◽  
Cynthia Frisby
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Spiritual Health ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
Perceived Efficacy ◽  
American Women ◽  
Caucasian Women

Spirituality seems to be an important cultural factor for African American women when thinking about their health. It is, however, not clear how spiritual health locus of control (SLOC) impacts health-related outcomes in the context of health message processing models, such as the Extended Parallel Process and the Risk Perception Attitude framework. Using a survey of African American and Caucasian women in the context of breast cancer, the role of SLOC and its interactions with perceived efficacy and risk was examined on four health outcomes–-message acceptance, talking about breast cancer, information seeking, and behavioral intentions. For African American women, SLOC had a positive impact for talking about breast cancer through an interaction with risk and efficacy such that women high in both SLOC and perceived efficacy, but low in perceived risk were more likely to talk about breast cancer than when efficacy was low. However, high SLOC exacerbated the negative effects of efficacy on talking about breast cancer regardless of the risk level for Caucasian women. SLOC also had a positive influence on attending to breast cancer information in the media for African American women. SLOC played no role in attending to breast cancer information for Caucasian women. Interestingly, SLOC played no role for African American women on behavioral intentions, however, it worked to decrease behavioral intentions for Caucasian women when risk was high.

African American Women Seeking Strength in Romance and Family Relationships

2017 ◽  
pp. 193-211
Author(s):  
Maudry-Beverley Lashley ◽  
Vanessa Marshall ◽  
TyWanda McLaurin-Jones
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Synergistic Effects ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Family Dynamic ◽  
American Women ◽  
Mental Well Being

Family interactions play a central role in creating relationships. The dynamic roles of intersectionality and biopsychosocial factors including culture, race, gender and environments stimulate the synergistic effects of relationships. Sociocultural contexts provide meaning to individual lives. The mechanisms within a family dynamic impact the formation of life decisions and overall health, spiritual and mental well-being. The purpose of this chapter is to explain and expand on how many African American women and LGBTQ couples create and interpret family dynamics and romantic relationships; specifically investigating the influential impact of kinship support, the role of the sandwich generation and the occupation of the Black woman as a primary caregiver.

Romantic attachment and mate retention behavior: The mediating role of perceived risk of partner infidelity

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 940-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Barbaro ◽  
Yael Sela ◽  
Mohammad Atari ◽  
Todd K. Shackelford ◽  
Virgil Zeigler-Hill
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Romantic Attachment ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Attachment Avoidance ◽  
Mate Retention ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Attachment Dimensions ◽  
Retention Study

Previous research indicates that the romantic attachment dimensions of anxiety and avoidance are associated with performance frequency of Benefit-Provisioning and Cost-Inflicting domains of mate retention. The current research aimed to replicate previous findings in a non-Western sample (Iran, Study 1) and to extend this research by investigating the mediating role of perceived risk of partner infidelity (Study 2). Studies 1 and 2 tested the hypotheses that attachment anxiety is positively associated with mate retention and that attachment avoidance is negatively associated with mate retention. Study 2 tested the hypothesis perceived risk of partner infidelity mediate the association between attachment dimensions and mate retention domains. Results of Studies 1 and 2 replicated previous research and also revealed that perceived risk of partner infidelity mediated the association between attachment anxiety, specifically, and mate retention. The current research advances our understanding of romantic attachment from an evolutionary psychological perspective.

Abstract 1465: Regulatory role of miRNA-661 in triple-negative breast cancer of African American women

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline S. Fonseca ◽  
Selene Elifio-Esposito ◽  
Marilesia F. Souza ◽  
Akanksha Mahajan ◽  
Yara R. Zabala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Triple Negative Breast Cancer ◽  
Triple Negative ◽  
Regulatory Role ◽  
American Women

scholarly journals THE ASSOCIATION OF LONELINESS AND CHRONIC CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT PAIN AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN AND WHITE OLDER ADULTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S613-S613
Author(s):  
David Camacho ◽  
Denise Burnette ◽  
Maria P Aranda ◽  
Ellen Lukens
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Social Life ◽  
White Women ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Biopsychosocial Model Of Pain

Abstract Loneliness and pain are significant public health problems in later life, yet limited research has examined how these factors interact among racially diverse older adults. Guided by the Biopsychosocial Model of Pain, we used data from Waves 2 and 3 of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project to investigate the relationship between loneliness and chronic pain among 1,102 African-American and White adults aged 50 and over. Using logistic regression analyses, our final models considered demographics, physical and mental health, functioning, medication, health behaviors and social factors. Approximately 32% of African Americans and 28% of Whites reported chronic loneliness. Compared to Whites African-Americans were 2.5 times more likely to experience chronic pain. Among White participants, loneliness was not associated with chronic pain; however, the interaction of being African-American and lonely was associated with decreased odds of chronic pain in main and gendered analyses. African American women were 4 times more likely than White women to report chronic pain. Our results address the objectives of the National Pain Strategy (2016) to elucidate the experiences of chronic pain among diverse elders in the US. Future work should seek a deeper understanding of loneliness and chronic pain among African Americans elders and how cultural dynamics may help explain our counter intuitive findings (e.g., “Superwoman Schema”).

Narratives of Three Elderly African-American Women Living in Poverty Who have Lost an Adult Child to Horrendous Death

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-161
Author(s):  
Helen K. Black ◽  
Robert L. Rubinstein
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Later Life ◽  
American Women ◽  
Chronic Poverty ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Fifty Elderly African-American Women Living In Poverty Were Interviewed For A Research Project Entitled “Chronic Poverty And The Self In Later Life” Which Studies The Effects Of Long-Term Poverty On Women's Self-Concepts. The Fact That Ten Women Out Of The Forty-Five Women In Our Sample Who Bore Children Lost Them To Murder, drugs, or other forms of violence made the subject of horrendous death (Leviton, 1995) salient during data analysis. Interview transcripts from three women who lost children to horrendous death were examined for reactions to the children's deaths and subsequent thoughts and feelings about their own deaths. Key themes emerging from the women's narratives were: 1) women's experience with poverty and abandonment, their expectation that life includes suffering, and their religious faith assisted them in grief work; 2) currently, women focused on present joys and concerns rather than on past sorrows; 3) women did not articulate thoughts about their own deaths in light of their child(ren)‘s deaths; and 4) women doubted or negated the concept of an afterlife, which contradicts traditional African beliefs and may speak to the loss they endured.

Adherence rates to endocrine therapy among African American women with stage I-III, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer treated at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e11582-e11582
Author(s):  
Megan Jean McKee ◽  
Danny Nguyen ◽  
Seham Al Haddad ◽  
Elsa Paplomata ◽  
Marjorie Adams Curry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Endocrine Therapy ◽  
Metastatic Disease ◽  
Breast Cancer Mortality ◽  
Benign Disease ◽  
Memorial Hospital ◽  
Adherence Rate ◽  
Caucasian Women

e11582 Background: Breast cancer mortality has historically been higher in African American (AA) women compared to Caucasian women. Controlling for tumor characteristics, biological markers and comorbidities does not account for the disparity. Previous studies have shown that AA women are more likely to have a high 21-gene recurrence score compared to Caucasian women. Another potential variable affecting treatment outcomes is adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy (ET). We conducted a retrospective review of pharmacy records at Grady Memorial Hospital (GMH) to examine the non-adherence rate among predominantly AA patients (pts). Methods: Pharmacy database records were examined for pts filling prescriptions for tamoxifen, anastrozole, or letrozole at GMH in Atlanta, Georgia from 2004-2009. Baseline characteristics were obtained by chart review. Pts were excluded if they had metastatic disease, DCIS, less than 60 days of eligible prescription, were male, deceased during the study period, benign disease, or no documentation of breast cancer in the electronic medical record (EMR). Non-adherence was defined as those filling less than 80% of eligible days covered by her prescription. Results: 679 pts were identified who filled prescriptions for tamoxifen, anastrozole, or letrozole at Grady pharmacy from 2004-2009. Pts who were excluded had metastatic disease (152), DCIS (101), had less than 60 days of eligible prescription (65), had no documentation of breast cancer in the EMR (25), were male (6), deceased before 2009 (5), or had benign disease (9). Of the 316 pts eligible for the study, median age was 60 (26 to 94) at time of diagnosis, 86% were AA, and 39% were node positive. 167 pts filled prescriptions for tamoxifen, 95 for anastrozole, and 54 for letrozole. The non-adherence rate for tamoxifen was 50%, anastrozole 38%, and letrozole 48%. Overall non-adherence rate was 46%. Conclusions: The overall non-adherence rate to adjuvant ET among a predominately AA population seen in a county hospital was similar to previously reported rates. Non-adherence to ET in this underserved AA pt population does not fully account for disparate outcomes.

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