Do trait psychological characteristics moderate sympathetic arousal to racial discrimination exposure in a natural setting?

ABSTRACT: Personality and psychological traits are known to influence how individuals react to and cope with stress, and thus, have downstream health and aging consequences. However, research considering psychological health traits as individual-level difference factors moderating the links been racism-related stress and health for racial and ethnic minorities in the United States is rare. Using intensive daily diaries and a wearable sensor that continuously recorded sympathetic nervous system arousal in a sample of racial and ethnic minority college students (80% African American, first-generation Black, or African; 20% Latinx), we linked arousal to racism-related experiences dynamically throughout the day as participants naturally went about their lives. Findings suggest that multiple traits are a

SUBMITTER: Jelsma EB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10624514 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature