Long-Term Effects of Stressors on Relationship Well-Being and Parenting Among Rural African American Women

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.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN ELDERLY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN VOLUNTEERS

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igx004.4432 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽

pp. 1219-1220

Author(s):

H. Hendrie ◽

B. Steve ◽

S. Gao ◽

E. Brown ◽

J. Beaven ◽

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Keyword(s):

African American ◽

African American Women ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

American Women ◽

Women Volunteers

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African American Women and Mental Well-Being: The Triangulation of Race, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status

A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health ◽

10.1017/cbo9780511984945.019 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 291-305 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Verna M. Keith ◽

Diane R. Brown

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

African American ◽

African American Women ◽

Well Being ◽

American Women ◽

Mental Well Being

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

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.2190/1nkp-axbp-9rla-a5uh ◽

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.

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Intimate Partner Sexual Coercion Mediates the Childhood Sexual Abuse–Suicidal Ideation Link Among African American Women

Journal of Black Psychology ◽

10.1177/0095798416644885 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 305-324 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Dorian A. Lamis ◽

Courtenay E. Cavanaugh ◽

Maria H. Anastasiades ◽

Amanda Garcia-Williams ◽

Claudine Anderson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

African American ◽

Suicidal Ideation ◽

Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽

African American Women ◽

Sexual Coercion ◽

Suicide Ideation ◽

Well Being ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

American Women

Suicide is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women. Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and intimate partner violence are significant risk factors for suicidal ideation among women. The purpose of this study was to examine the interrelationships among these three constructs and test if intimate partner sexual coercion may explain the CSA–suicidal ideation link. African American women ( N = 141) completed an assessment of childhood trauma, intimate partner sexual coercion, and suicide ideation. A significant positive correlation was found between CSA and sexual coercion, between CSA and suicidal ideation, and between sexual coercion and suicidal ideation. Also, intimate partner sexual coercion was found to mediate the relationship between CSA and suicidal ideation when controlling for covariates such as spiritual well-being, self-esteem, and barriers to services. The association between CSA and suicidal ideation may be explained by sexual revictimization in the context of an intimate relationship among African American women. Clinically, practitioners should engage in regular screening for suicide ideation among African American women who have experienced CSA and intimate partner sexual coercion.

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Increasing Physical Activity in Black Women: Results from a Randomized Trial Conducted in Faith-Based Settings

Ethnicity & Disease ◽

10.18865/ed.27.4.411 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 411 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Melicia C. Whitt-Glover ◽

Moses V. Goldmon ◽

Ziya Gizlice ◽

Marie Sillice ◽

Lyndsey Hornbuckle ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

African American ◽

Black Women ◽

African American Women ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Control Group ◽

High Risk Population ◽

Post Intervention ◽

American Women

Objective: The Learning and Developing Individual Exercise Skills (L.A.D.I.E.S.) for a Better Life study compared a faith-integrated (FI) and a secular (SEC) intervention for increasing physical activity with a self-guided (SG) control group among African American women. Design/Setting/Participants: L.A.D.I.E.S. was a cluster randomized, controlled trial. Churches (n=31) were randomized and women within each church (n=12 – 15) received the same intervention. Interventions: FI and SEC participants received 24 group-based sessions, delivered over 10 months. SG participants received printed materials to review independently for 10 months. Participants were followed for 12-months post-intervention to assess long-term intervention impact. Main Outcome Measures: Data on participant characteristics, physical activity, and intervention-related constructs were collected at baseline, 10 months, and 22 months. Results: Intervention session attendance was greater for FI compared with SEC participants (15.7 + 5.7 vs 12.4 + 7.3 sessions, respectively, P<.01). After 10 months, FI and SEC participants significantly increased daily walking (+1,451 and +1,107 steps/ day, respectively) compared with SG participants (-128 steps/day). Increases were maintained after 22 months in the FI group compared with the SG group (+1092 vs. +336 daily steps, P<.01). Between-group changes in accelerometer-assessed physical activity were not statistically significant at any time point. Conclusions: The FI intervention is a feasible strategy for short- and long-term increases in physical activity among African American women. Additional dissemination and evaluation of the strategy could be useful for reducing chronic disease in this high-risk population. Ethn Dis.2017;27(4):411- 420; doi:10.18865/ed.27.4.411.

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“There Were Rapes!”: Sexual Assaults of African American Women and Children in Jim Crow

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/1077801216654016 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 23 (8) ◽

pp. 934-950 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ruth Thompson-Miller ◽

Leslie H. Picca

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

African American Women ◽

Jim Crow ◽

White Men ◽

Sexual Assaults ◽

American Women ◽

Using Data ◽

The 1960S ◽

Long Term Impact

Using data from 92 interviews, this article examines the narratives of African Americans’ experiences as children and young adults during Jim Crow in the Southeast and Southwest. It gives voice to the realities of sexual assaults committed by ordinary White men who systematically terrorized African American families with impunity after the post-Reconstruction south until the 1960s. The interviewees discuss the short- and long-term impact of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual assaults in their communities. We discuss the top four prevalent themes that emerged related to sexual assault, specifically (a) the normalization of sexual assaults, (b) protective measures to avoid White violence, (c) the morality of African American women, and (d) the long-term consequences of assaults on children.

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