Perceived relationship support moderates the association of contextual stress with inflammation among African Americans.

ABSTRACT: We followed 402 African American young adults from ages 24 to 29, a period of emerging committed relationships, to examine the association of contextual stress (CS), for example, experiences of financial strain, victimization, and racial discrimination, with inflammation, and to test predictions that greater perceived relationship warmth and support (PRWS) at age 29 would moderate the association between earlier CS and inflammation, using a multiplex assessment of cytokines to construct an index of the ratio between predominantly proinflammatory cytokines versus predominantly anti-inflammatory cytokines. CS experienced at age 24 was associated with greater inflammation at age 29 in the full sample (b = .112, p = .004). PRWS at age 29 moderated the association of earlier CS with inflammatio

SUBMITTER: Beach SRH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7685221 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature