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The Path to Better Health for Black Women: Predicting Self-Care and Exploring Its Mediating Effects on Stress and Health
Stress leads to poor self-rated health for many black women because of racial and economic discrimination which results in psychological distress and restricted access to resources. Resilience factors such as self-care may be able to buffer the impact of stress; however, the role of self-care in red...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6728668/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31486346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958019870968 |
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author | Adkins-Jackson, Paris B. Turner-Musa, Jocelyn Chester, Charlene |
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description | Stress leads to poor self-rated health for many black women because of racial and economic discrimination which results in psychological distress and restricted access to resources. Resilience factors such as self-care may be able to buffer the impact of stress; however, the role of self-care in reducing the effect of stress on self-rated health has not been explored. Self-care involves the utilization of self-awareness and agency to seek remedy for imbalance and to sustain equilibrium. Despite anecdotal exploration of these factors, there has not been a systematic investigation of whether self-awareness and agency indeed predict self-care. Subsequently, this study sought to provide evidence that self-awareness and resilience predict self-care, and self-care can mediate the negative relationship between stress and self-rated health. A cross-section of 223 black women living in the United States completed a battery of assessments of self-care, mindfulness, perceived stress, resilience, and self-rated health. Through a series of regression analyses exploring mediating effects, a path emerged. Findings indicate that awareness and resilience do predict self-care, and self-care mediates the negative relationship between stress and health. These analyses suggest that the role of stress on black women’s health can be reduced by the implementation of awareness and resilience. |
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spelling | pubmed-67286682019-09-13 The Path to Better Health for Black Women: Predicting Self-Care and Exploring Its Mediating Effects on Stress and Health Adkins-Jackson, Paris B. Turner-Musa, Jocelyn Chester, Charlene Inquiry Original Research Stress leads to poor self-rated health for many black women because of racial and economic discrimination which results in psychological distress and restricted access to resources. Resilience factors such as self-care may be able to buffer the impact of stress; however, the role of self-care in reducing the effect of stress on self-rated health has not been explored. Self-care involves the utilization of self-awareness and agency to seek remedy for imbalance and to sustain equilibrium. Despite anecdotal exploration of these factors, there has not been a systematic investigation of whether self-awareness and agency indeed predict self-care. Subsequently, this study sought to provide evidence that self-awareness and resilience predict self-care, and self-care can mediate the negative relationship between stress and self-rated health. A cross-section of 223 black women living in the United States completed a battery of assessments of self-care, mindfulness, perceived stress, resilience, and self-rated health. Through a series of regression analyses exploring mediating effects, a path emerged. Findings indicate that awareness and resilience do predict self-care, and self-care mediates the negative relationship between stress and health. These analyses suggest that the role of stress on black women’s health can be reduced by the implementation of awareness and resilience. SAGE Publications 2019-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6728668/ /pubmed/31486346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958019870968 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Adkins-Jackson, Paris B. Turner-Musa, Jocelyn Chester, Charlene The Path to Better Health for Black Women: Predicting Self-Care and Exploring Its Mediating Effects on Stress and Health |
title | The Path to Better Health for Black Women: Predicting Self-Care and
Exploring Its Mediating Effects on Stress and Health |
title_full | The Path to Better Health for Black Women: Predicting Self-Care and
Exploring Its Mediating Effects on Stress and Health |
title_fullStr | The Path to Better Health for Black Women: Predicting Self-Care and
Exploring Its Mediating Effects on Stress and Health |
title_full_unstemmed | The Path to Better Health for Black Women: Predicting Self-Care and
Exploring Its Mediating Effects on Stress and Health |
title_short | The Path to Better Health for Black Women: Predicting Self-Care and
Exploring Its Mediating Effects on Stress and Health |
title_sort | path to better health for black women: predicting self-care and
exploring its mediating effects on stress and health |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6728668/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31486346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958019870968 |
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