Cardiovascular reactivity during conversations about discrimination is buffered by social support among U.S. Latines.

ABSTRACT: Racial discrimination is conceptualized as an acute and chronic stressor. Like other acute stressors, lab-based studies demonstrate acute effects of discrimination-related stressors on stress-related cardiovascular outcomes, including total cardiac output, blood pressure, and indices of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity. Critically, it is important to understand how individual and social factors buffer the experience of race-related acute stress. The current study extends existing work by measuring cardiovascular indices of stress during conversations about racial/ethnic discrimination and examines the moderating role of social support. Latine/Hispanic participants (N = 97) talked about personal discrimination experiences with either a close other or a research assist

SUBMITTER: Volpert-Esmond HI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11542084 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature