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Stress and Coping among Black Women Employed in Non-professional Service and Professional Occupations in Florida and Georgia.
- Source :
- Issues in Mental Health Nursing; Aug2015, Vol. 36 Issue 8, p621-631, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Culture enhances the ability to address the stressors related to ethnicity/race, employment, and lifestyle. From this interaction, two coping patterns emerge: individualist-oriented or collectivist-oriented, of which women prefer the latter. However, there is limited knowledge about the impact of ethnicity/race on the coping strategies of Black working women in the USA. Therefore, the purpose of this cross-sectional survey was to examine the coping strategies of two groups of Black women, those who work in non-professional service-related jobs and those employed as professionals. We explored Black women from two southern states, Florida and Georgia, in their use of coping strategies for everyday stressors. A modified version of Lazarus and Folkman's Transactional Model was used as the framework of this study. The sample for this cross-sectional survey consisted of 313 Black women employed in non-professional service jobs and 343 in professional roles. The thoughts and actions related to coping in everyday stressors were measured with The Ways of Coping Questionnaire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- OCCUPATIONS
WORK environment & psychology
PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation
ANALYSIS of variance
BLACK people
CORPORATE culture
FACTOR analysis
LONGITUDINAL method
MULTIVARIATE analysis
PROBABILITY theory
PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
MATHEMATICAL models of psychology
QUESTIONNAIRES
STATISTICS
PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
THEORY
WOMEN
DATA analysis
CROSS-sectional method
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01612840
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Issues in Mental Health Nursing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 109503432
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3109/01612840.2014.1002643