20 results on '"Verna, M"'
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2. Mental Health: An Intersectional Approach
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Keith, Verna M., Brown, Diane R., DeLamater, John, Series Editor, Risman, Barbara J., editor, Froyum, Carissa M., editor, and Scarborough, William J., editor
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- 2018
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3. Racial Identity and Well-Being among African Americans
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Hughes, Michael, Kiecolt, K. Jill, Keith, Verna M., and Demo, David H.
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- 2015
4. Psychological Distress among Black Immigrants by Region of Birth
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Gabe H. Miller, Verna M. Keith, Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde, and Guizhen Ma
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Black african ,Epidemiology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Immigration ,Black People ,Emigrants and Immigrants ,Context (language use) ,macromolecular substances ,Psychological Distress ,White People ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Proportional odds ,media_common ,030505 public health ,Public health ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Psychological distress ,Mental health ,United States ,Black or African American ,Distress ,Caribbean Region ,0305 other medical science ,Psychology ,Demography - Abstract
We assess the likelihood of moderate and severe psychological distress among Black immigrants. We test the region of context framework, which states that Black immigrants from majority-Black and racially mixed regions of origin have better health outcomes than Black immigrants from majority-white contexts. We utilize data from IPUMS Health Surveys, 2000–2018. We employed partial proportional odds models to assess the likelihood of moderate and severe psychological distress among Black immigrants and U.S.-born Black Americans. All immigrant groups, except for Black Europeans, are significantly less likely to be in moderate and severe distress vis-a-vis U.S.-born Black Americans (p
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- 2021
5. CAN A HIGH SENSE OF CONTROL AND JOHN HENRYISM BE BAD FOR MENTAL HEALTH?
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Kiecolt, K. Jill, Hughes, Michael, and Keith, Verna M.
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- 2009
6. Discrimination Fully Mediates the Effects of Incarceration History on Depressive Symptoms and Psychological Distress Among African American Men
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Verna M. Keith, Dawne M. Mouzon, Shervin Assari, Reuben Jonathan Miller, Robert Joseph Taylor, and Linda M. Chatters
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Health (social science) ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Anxiety ,Article ,Structural equation modeling ,03 medical and health sciences ,Racism ,0302 clinical medicine ,Promotion (rank) ,Epidemiology ,medicine ,Humans ,African american men ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Psychiatry ,Depressive symptoms ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,media_common ,030505 public health ,Mass incarceration ,Depression ,Health Policy ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Mental health ,Black or African American ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Prisons ,Anthropology ,0305 other medical science ,Psychology ,Stress, Psychological - Abstract
AIM: Using a nationally representative sample of African American men, this study investigated the associations between lifetime history of incarceration, discrimination, and mental health (e.g. depressive symptoms and psychological distress). We hypothesized that discrimination would fully mediate the association between incarceration history and mental health outcomes among African American men. METHODS: Using a cross-sectional design, our analysis included 1,271 African American men who participated in the National Survey of American Life (NSAL), 2001–2003. Incarceration history was the main independent variable. Depressive symptoms and psychological distress were the dependent variables. Everyday discrimination was the mediator. Age, education, and income were covariates. Structural equation models (SEM) were used for data analysis. RESULTS: Among African American men, incarceration history was positively associated with perceived discrimination, depressive symptoms, and psychological distress. Everyday discrimination fully mediated the associations between incarceration history and both depressive symptoms and psychological distress. CONCLUSION: Discrimination may play an important role in the mental health problems of African American men with a history of incarceration. These findings have public policy implications as well as clinical implications for mental health promotion of African American men. Policies that reduce preventable incarceration or at least reduce subsequent discrimination for those who have been incarcerated may enhance mental health of previously incarcerated African American men.
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- 2017
7. Discrimination and psychiatric disorders among older African Americans
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Linda M. Chatters, Robert Joseph Taylor, Verna M. Keith, Emily J. Nicklett, and Dawne M. Mouzon
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medicine.medical_specialty ,030505 public health ,medicine.disease ,Mental health ,03 medical and health sciences ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,0302 clinical medicine ,Prevalence of mental disorders ,Mood ,Mood disorders ,Epidemiology ,medicine ,Anxiety ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Geriatrics and Gerontology ,medicine.symptom ,0305 other medical science ,Psychiatry ,Psychology ,Anxiety disorder ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Objectives This study examined the impact of everyday discrimination (both racial and non-racial) on the mental health of older African Americans. Methods This analysis is based on the older African American subsample of the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) (n = 773). We examined the associations between everyday discrimination and both general distress and psychiatric disorders as measured by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Six dependent variables were examined: lifetime mood disorders, lifetime anxiety disorders, any lifetime disorder, number of lifetime disorders, depressive symptoms as measured by the 12-item Center for Epidemiological Scale of Depression (CES-D), and serious psychological distress as measured by the Kessler 6 (K6). Results Overall, racial and non-racial everyday discrimination were consistently associated with worse mental health for older African Americans. Older African Americans who experienced higher levels of overall everyday discrimination had higher odds of any psychiatric disorder, any lifetime mood disorder, any lifetime anxiety disorder, and more lifetime DSM-IV disorders, in addition to elevated levels of depressive symptoms and serious psychological distress. These findings were similar for both racial discrimination and non-racial discrimination. Conclusions This study documents the harmful association of not only racial discrimination, but also non-racial (and overall) discrimination with the mental health of older African Americans. Specifically, discrimination is negatively associated with mood and anxiety disorders as well as depressive symptoms and psychological distress. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- 2016
8. Mental Health: An Intersectional Approach
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Diane R. Brown and Verna M. Keith
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Intersectionality ,medicine.medical_specialty ,050402 sociology ,05 social sciences ,medicine.disease ,Social stratification ,Mental health ,0506 political science ,Substance abuse ,Distress ,Prevalence of mental disorders ,0504 sociology ,Epidemiology ,050602 political science & public administration ,medicine ,Psychology ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Social stratification theory predicts that racial minorities and women should have poorer mental health outcomes than Whites and men because they have less social power and fewer resources. Empirical investigations, however, reveal that race and gender differences are far more complex than theory would predict. Women are more distressed than men but distress levels are similar for Blacks and Whites. Women experience internalizing disorders such as major depression and men experience externalizing disorder such as substance abuse, but the overall prevalence of mental disorders does not vary by gender. Even more puzzling is that the overall prevalence diagnosable mental disorder is lower among Blacks than among Whites. We draw on upon intersectionality and stress perspectives to review the complex gender and race patterns observed in the epidemiology of mental health and conclude with a discussion of future research.
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- 2018
9. Racial Identity and Well-Being among African Americans
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David H. Demo, Michael Hughes, Verna M. Keith, and K. Jill Kiecolt
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Internalized racism ,Social Psychology ,Cultural identity ,Well-being ,Identity (social science) ,Social identity theory ,Psychology ,Mental health ,Religious identity ,Racial formation theory ,Social psychology - Abstract
How racial identity influences self-esteem and psychological well-being among African Americans remains unresolved due to unexplained inconsistencies in theoretical predictions and empirical findings. Using data from the National Survey of American Life (N = 3,570), we tested hypotheses derived from social identity theory and the internalized racism perspective. Findings support social identity theory in showing that African Americans strongly identify with their group and view it very positively. In addition, those who identify more with their group and evaluate it more positively have greater self-esteem, greater mastery, and fewer depressive symptoms. However, findings also support the internalized racism perspective by showing that when group evaluation is relatively negative, racial identification is related to lower mastery and higher depressive symptoms. We conclude that both social identity theory and the internalized racism perspective are necessary for understanding how racial identity is related to self-attitudes and mental health among African Americans.
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- 2015
10. How Racial Identity Moderates the Impact of Financial Stress on Mental Health among African Americans
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K. Jill Kiecolt, Michael Hughes, and Verna M. Keith
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Family support ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Closeness ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Psychology of self ,Self-esteem ,Identity (social science) ,Mental health ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Moderated mediation ,Psychology ,Association (psychology) ,Clinical psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Financial stress, which is common among African Americans, has been linked to higher psychological distress. This study examines whether racial identity moderates the association of financial stress with depressive symptoms. If so, through what mechanisms does it operate? We investigated these questions in a moderated mediation analysis, using data from the National Survey of American Life ( N = 3,570). Of the two racial identity dimensions examined, positive group evaluation but not closeness to other African Americans was associated with less adverse effects of financial stress on depressive symptoms. In addition, we tested two mechanisms that could explain the buffering effect. Psychological resources (self-esteem and, less consistently, mastery), explained 26% to 46% of the buffering effects of racial identity; family support explained 8%. That is, positive group evaluations fortify African Americans in the face of hard times. They do so primarily through their association with a greater sense of self-worth.
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- 2013
11. Subtypes of Girls Who Engage in Serious Delinquency and Their Young Adult Outcomes.
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Smith, Danielle M., Blake, Jamilia J., Luo, Wen, Keith, Verna M., and Gilreath, Tameka
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JUVENILE delinquency & psychology ,BLACK people ,MENTAL depression ,HISPANIC Americans ,JUVENILE delinquency ,MENTAL health ,SELF-evaluation ,SUBSTANCE abuse ,TEENAGERS' conduct of life ,PSYCHOLOGY of crime victims ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,EDUCATIONAL attainment ,PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,ADOLESCENCE ,ADULTS - Abstract
Girls are increasingly becoming involved with the juvenile justice system; however, what brings girls to engage in delinquency or what obstacles these girls face later in life resulting from adolescent criminal behavior is understudied. In the present study, we used latent class analysis to identify subtypes of risks among adolescent girls (N = 1,174) who have engaged in delinquent behaviors and mixture modeling to determine what distal psychological, social, educational, and economic outcomes in young adulthood are associated with each subtype. Four adolescent subtypes were identified, which were distinguished primarily based on the severity of their self-reported victimization experiences and mental health concerns. Classes with higher levels of victimization experiences tended to report more engagement with delinquent behavior in adolescence and had a larger proportion of Black and Hispanic girls than lower-victimization classes. Identified classes differed from each other on distal (i.e., young adulthood) measures of economic instability, educational attainment, drug use, depression, and adult arrests. Generally, latent classes which were characterized by higher rates of victimization and mental health concerns and lower educational performance in adolescence fared worse in young adulthood. Implications for those who care for girls who engage in delinquency, including suggestions for using trauma and culture informed screening, prevention, and intervention services, and directions for future research are discussed. Additional online materials for this article are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/0361684320918243. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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12. RACIAL IDENTITY AND THE RACIAL PARADOX IN MENTAL HEALTH.
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Hughes, Michael, Kiecolt, K. Jill, and Keith, Verna M.
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RACIAL identity of African Americans ,RACE identity ,MENTAL health ,PSYCHIATRIC epidemiology ,AFRICAN Americans - Abstract
The paradox that African Americans experience relatively good mental health despite being exposed to negative racial stereotypes and other stressors remains unexplained. The present study investigates the possibility that two dimensions of racial identity--ingroup closeness and ingroup evaluation--help explain these puzzling findings. African Americans' racial identity tends to be positive, and it is associated with higher self-esteem and mastery and a lower likelihood of depression. Using data from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES), we show that African Americans who feel close to other African Americans and those who evaluate African Americans positively have greater self-esteem and mastery and a lower likelihood of depression and anxiety than whites. Without a positive racial identity, African Americans' mental health would be the same or worse than that of whites. We conclude that racial identity partly explains how African Americans enjoy relatively good mental health, despite greater exposure to negative racial stereotypes, discrimination, and other stressors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
13. Can A High Sense of Control and John Henryism be Bad for Mental Health?
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Verna M. Keith, K. Jill Kiecolt, and Michael Hughes
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Coping (psychology) ,030505 public health ,Sociology and Political Science ,Inequality ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Ethnic group ,050109 social psychology ,Mental health ,Social stratification ,John Henryism ,03 medical and health sciences ,National Comorbidity Survey ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sociology ,0305 other medical science ,Socioeconomic status ,Social psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Social stratification profoundly affects mental health. Specifically, substantial empirical evidence finds that higher status promotes mental health via a higher sense of control and a propensity to cope actively with problems. An unresolved issue, though, is whether the effects of sense of control and active coping on mental health are uniformly beneficial across levels of socioeconomic status. Perceived control and John Henryism, an active coping style, may undermine mental health, especially for lower-status persons, who lack resources. Using data from the National Comorbidity Survey for African Americans, Hispanics, and whites, we find that both sense of control and John Henryism tend to be monotonically related to positive mental health regardless of socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity.
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- 2009
14. Race, social relationships, and mental health
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a Michael Hughes, K. Jill Kiecolt, and a Verna M. Keith
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Social Psychology ,Human factors and ergonomics ,Poison control ,Suicide prevention ,Mental health ,Occupational safety and health ,Race (biology) ,Anthropology ,National Comorbidity Survey ,Injury prevention ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Life-span and Life-course Studies ,Psychology ,Social psychology - Abstract
Researchers often assume that the extent, quality, and effectiveness of personal relationships explain why African Americans have relatively good mental health despite experiencing high levels of stress. This study tests this assumption using data from the 1990–1992 National Comorbidity Survey. Few racial differences emerge in patterns of social relationships, and the nature and quality of social relationships do not explain African Americans’ resiliency on mental health. Several aspects of social relationships benefit African Americans’ mental health more than Whites’, but these moderating effects are insubstantial. Hence, the data do not support the assumption. If social relationships help explain the lack of racial differences in mental health, their nature and effects must be more adequately conceptualized.
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- 2008
15. Hurricane Katrina: prior trauma, poverty and health among Vietnamese-American survivors
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Christopher A. Airriess, Verna M. Keith, Wenjun Li, Angela Chia-Chen Chen, K-Y Chung, Karen J. Leong, and Caroline C. Lee
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Adult ,Male ,Gerontology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Health Status ,Vietnamese ,Protective factor ,Poison control ,Disaster Planning ,Nursing Methodology Research ,Nurse's Role ,Vulnerable Populations ,Suicide prevention ,Occupational safety and health ,Disasters ,Life Change Events ,Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic ,Social support ,Nursing ,Risk Factors ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Adaptation, Psychological ,Injury prevention ,Humans ,Medicine ,Survivors ,Psychiatry ,Poverty ,General Nursing ,Health Services Needs and Demand ,Asian ,business.industry ,Social Support ,Focus Groups ,Louisiana ,Texas ,Mental health ,language.human_language ,Vietnam ,Multivariate Analysis ,language ,Female ,business ,Attitude to Health ,Acculturation - Abstract
Background: The flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina revealed the disproportionate vulnerability of ethnic minority communities for emergency preparedness, disaster relief and health. Nurses need to analyse Katrina's health consequences for the most vulnerable segments of our society. Aim: To examine factors contributing to differential health outcomes among the New Orleans Vietnamese community in response to Katrina. Methods: A sample of 113 adult Vietnamese Katrina survivors from New Orleans was recruited. A mixed-method approach, including survey and focus groups, was used to collect data. Survey questions were modified from standardized instruments to evaluate survivors' health status and factors contributing to health outcomes. Multivariate and content analysis were used to investigate effects of prior trauma, financial strain, social support and acculturation level in predicting survivors' health outcomes. Results: Findings suggested financial strain was the strongest risk factor for Vietnamese survivors' post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and physical and mental health post-disaster; while social support was a strong protective factor for health. Survivors who perceived higher impact from previous traumatic experiences had poorer physical health, but not PTSD symptoms or poor mental health after controlling for financial strain and social support, suggesting complex relationships among these measures in predicting PTSD symptoms and health. Less-acculturated individuals also reported higher levels of PTSD symptoms and poorer physical health. Conclusions: Catastrophic events like Katrina can result in disproportionate risk of negative health outcomes among vulnerable populations. Nurses should take into account prior trauma, financial strain, social support network and acculturation level, to adequately address survivors' needs.
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- 2007
16. African American Women and Mental Well-Being: The Triangulation of Race, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status
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Verna M. Keith and Diane R. Brown
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Social support ,Distress ,Stressor ,medicine ,Life course approach ,Mental illness ,medicine.disease ,Psychology ,Everyday life ,Mental health ,Social psychology ,Allostatic load - Abstract
This chapter distinguishes stressors, stress, and distress in the interest of bringing the use of these terms more into line with the way they are used in the stress literature and to reduce the problems of inconsistent usage prevalent in the discussion of stress in everyday life. It discusses two original stress models- biological and engineering. The chapter distinguishes varieties of stress, from life events to chronic to traumas to nonevents to daily hassles, at the individual level. It demonstrates that these distinctions are empirically supported by findings that different sources of stress have distinct impacts on mental health outcomes. The chapter discusses the issue of misconceptions about stress to argue that stress, although a general concept is a concept with theoretical and operational borders. It reviews trends in stress research, which reveal an upward trajectory in the study of all of the kinds of stress.
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- 2009
17. Race, Social Relationships, and Mental Health.
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Kiecolt, K. Jill, Hughes, Michael, and Keith, Verna M.
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MENTAL health ,SOCIAL interaction ,SOCIAL status ,PSYCHOLOGICAL stress ,MENTAL illness ,RACE relations ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,AFRICAN Americans - Abstract
We test three models (Allen 1978) that imply, respectively, that African Americans (1) have a mental health advantage because they maintain stronger systems of social support than Whites; (2) have poorer mental health than Whites because they have smaller, less effective support systems; or (3) do not differ from Whites on mental health when socioeconomic status is controlled. We use data from the National Comorbidity Survey (Kessler et al. 1994) to address four questions: Does the structure of social relationships, as well as perceived supportiveness and strain from them, vary by race and gender? How does psychological functioning--psychological distress, mental disorder, and substance disorder--differ by race and gender? How do social relationships influence psychological functioning? Do social relationships influence the psychological functioning of African American and White men and women in different ways? The findings clearly contradict models (2) and (3), but do not strongly support model (1). With SES controlled, African Americans are advantaged on all three measures of psychological functioning, and the differences are not explained by differences in social integration and relationship quality. Conceptualizing and measuring the processes that are responsible for higher psychological functioning among African Americans is an important task for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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18. Race, social relationships, and mental health.
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KIECOLT, K. JILL, HUGHES, MICHAEL, and KEITH, VERNA M.
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MENTAL health ,AFRICAN Americans ,RACE ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,HAPPINESS ,SOCIAL interaction ,PSYCHIATRY ,RACISM - Abstract
Researchers often assume that the extent, quality, and effectiveness of personal relationships explain why African Americans have relatively good mental health despite experiencing high levels of stress. This study tests this assumption using data from the 1990–1992 National Comorbidity Survey. Few racial differences emerge in patterns of social relationships, and the nature and quality of social relationships do not explain African Americans’ resiliency on mental health. Several aspects of social relationships benefit African Americans’ mental health more than Whites’, but these moderating effects are insubstantial. Hence, the data do not support the assumption. If social relationships help explain the lack of racial differences in mental health, their nature and effects must be more adequately conceptualized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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19. Work and Housework Conditions and Depressive Symptoms Among Married Women: The Importance of Occupational Status.
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Riley, Anna L. and Keith, Verna M.
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MENTAL health , *WOMEN'S health , *HOME economics , *MENTAL depression , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *OCCUPATIONS - Abstract
Assesses the impact of employment on women's mental health. Examination of housewives' subjective evaluations of their housework; Evaluation of paid employment among groups of professional, sales-clerical and service-blue collar wives; Effects of subjective working conditions on depressive symptoms among wives who are full-time homemakers.
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- 2003
20. Racial discrimination and 12-month and lifetime anxiety disorders among African American men and women: Findings from the National Survey of American Life.
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Nguyen, Ann W., Qin, Weidi, Wei, Wenxing, Keith, Verna M., and Mitchell, Uchechi A.
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AFRICAN Americans , *ANXIETY disorders , *RACE discrimination , *SOCIAL anxiety , *POST-traumatic stress disorder , *PANIC disorders - Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the associations between racial discrimination and 12-month and lifetime DSM-IV anxiety disorders among African American men and women. Data was drawn from the African American sample of the National Survey of American Life (N = 3570). Racial discrimination was assessed with the Everyday Discrimination Scale. 12-month and lifetime DSM-IV outcomes were any anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder (PD), social anxiety disorder (SAD), and agoraphobia (AG). Logistic regressions were utilized to assess the relationships between discrimination and anxiety disorders. The data indicated that racial discrimination was associated with increased odds for 12-month and lifetime anxiety disorders, AG, and PD and lifetime SAD among men. Regarding 12-month disorders among women, racial discrimination was associated with increased odds for any anxiety disorder, PTSD, SAD, and PD. With respect to lifetime disorders among women, racial discrimination was associated with increased odds for any anxiety disorder, PTSD, GAD, SAD, and PD. The limitations of this study include the utilization of cross-sectional data, self-reported measures, and the exclusion of non-community dwelling individuals. The current investigation showed that African American men and women are not impacted by racial discrimination in the same ways. These findings suggest that the mechanisms through which discrimination operates among men and women to influence anxiety disorders is potentially a relevant target for interventions to address gender disparities in anxiety disorders. • The associations between discrimination and anxiety disorders are gender-specific. • Discrimination was associated with any anxiety disorder, PD, SAD, and AG among men. • Discrimination was associated with most anxiety outcomes among women. • Men and women are not impacted by racial discrimination in the same ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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