Strain, Social Support, and Retreatism Among African Americans
| Autor: | Jason A. Lyons, Sung Joon Jang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
African american education.field_of_study Sociology and Political Science General strain theory media_common.quotation_subject 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Population Coping behavior Anger Social support Anthropology medicine Anxiety 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0509 other social sciences medicine.symptom education Empirical evidence Psychology Social psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Black Studies. 37:251-274 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4566 0021-9347 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0021934705278781 |
| Popis: | This study tests Agnew's general strain theory (GST) for African Americans, a population neglected in GST research. Specifically, we examined (a) the differential effects of inner-and outer-directed negative emotions on withdrawing behavior and (b) the conditioning effects of social support on the understudied, deviant coping behavior. OLS regression analyses of data from a national survey of African American adults provide empirical evidence that depression and anxiety have larger effects on withdrawing behavior than anger. Findings also provide some support for the hypothesis that social support tends to weaken or buffer the effects of nonangry emotions on withdrawing behavior. |
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