Psychosocial Mechanisms Underlying Older Black Men's Health.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the psychosocial mechanisms underlying older Black men's self-rated health, we examined: (a) the individual, cumulative, and collective effects of stressors on health; (b) the direct effects of psychosocial resources on health; and (c) the stress-moderating effects of psychosocial resources.

Method

This study is based on a nationally representative sample of Black men aged 51-81 (N = 593) in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models of the psychosocial determinants of self-rated health draw on data from the HRS 2010 and 2012 Core datasets and Psychosocial Modules.

Results

Each of the six measures of stressors as well as a cumulative measure of stressors are predictive of worse self-rated health. Howeve

SUBMITTER: Brown TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5927121 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature