Everyday unfair treatment and multisystem biological dysregulation in African American adults.
| Autor: | Ong AD; Department of Human Development, Cornell University., Williams DR; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University., Nwizu U; Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University., Gruenewald TL; Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology [Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol] 2017 Jan; Vol. 23 (1), pp. 27-35. |
| DOI: | 10.1037/cdp0000087 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: Increasing evidence suggests that chronic exposure to unfair treatment or day-to-day discrimination increases risk for poor health, but data on biological stress mechanisms are limited. This study examined chronic experiences of unfair treatment in relation to allostatic load (AL), a multisystem index of biological dysregulation. Method: Data are from a sample of 233 African-American adults (37-85 years; 64% women). Perceptions of everyday unfair treatment were measured by questionnaire. An AL index was computed as the sum of 7 separate physiological system risk indices (cardiovascular regulation, lipid, glucose, inflammation, sympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic nervous system, hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis). Results: Adjusting for sociodemographics, medication use, smoking status, alcohol consumption, depressive symptoms, lifetime discrimination, and global perceived stress, everyday mistreatment was associated with higher AL. Conclusions: The results add to a growing literature on the effects of chronic bias and discrimination by demonstrating how such experiences are instantiated in downstream physiological systems. (PsycINFO Database Record ((c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved).) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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