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| Ethnic variation in the impact of negative affect and emotion inhibition on the health of older adults | | Author(s) | Nathan S Consedine, Carol Magai, Carl I Cohen |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 5, September 2002 |
| Pages | pp P396-P408 |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Depression ; Emotions ; Health [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors examined the relationships between negative affect and emotion inhibition and that of illness (hypertension, respiratory disease, arthritis, and sleep disorder) in a sample of 1,118 older people living in the community from four ethnic groups: US born African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, US born European Americans, and Eastern European immigrants. Participants completed measures of stress, life-style risk factors, health, social support, trait negative emotion, and emotion inhibition. As expected, the interaction of ethnicity with emotion inhibition and, to a lesser extent, negative affect, was significantly related to illness, even controlling for other known risk factors. However, the relationships between these variables were complex, and the patterns did not hold for all types of illness or operate in the same direction across ethnic groups. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021107204 A |
| Classmark | TK: ENR: DL: CC: 7T |
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