Racial/Ethnic Differences in Women's Life Event Exposure Across Midlife.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Stressful life events are associated with poorer physical, cognitive, and mental health. Examining life events trends across midlife illustrates normative experiences of stress in a critical life period for intervention and disease prevention. Further, there is a critical need for research with racially/ethnically diverse samples to identify differences in life event exposure, as they may relate to later health disparities.

Method

Annual life event reports were analyzed from 3,066 White, Black, Hispanic, Chinese, and Japanese women in the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Across ages 43-65, longitudinal trajectories were fit to annual number of life events and 9 subcategories of life events (i.e., work problems, economic problems, partner unemployment, ill

SUBMITTER: Koffer RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8824596 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature