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Stress and illness in low-income women: the roles of hardiness, John Henryism, and Race

Williams, Dorothy, Lawler, Kathleen A.·2001·Women & Health
DOI 10.1300/j013v32n04_04
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This study examines the stress-illness relationship in a biracial group (African-American and Caucasian-American) of low-income women. Two personality constructs, hardiness and John Henryism, were studied for their possible moderating influences on the stress-illness relationship. One hundred women, with family incomes below the poverty line, completed questionnaires of stress, illness, hardiness, and John Henryism. Hierarchical regression models indicated that hardiness moderated the stress-illness relationship, with high stress, low hardy women having higher levels of illness. In addition, race also moderated the effect of stress, with high stress, Caucasian women having higher levels of illness. However, John Henryism had no effect on stress-related illness in these low-income women. Analyses of additional stress measures indicated that hardy women perceive their external environments as less stressful, although high and low hardy women have similar levels of network stress. Correlational analyses indicated that life-event stress, network stress and low-income concerns were all associated with illness scores. Thus, a range of stress measures are linked to physical illness in low-income women; furthermore, hardiness and being African-American both buffered the effects of stress on illness.

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  • Prior evidence of the association between John Henryism and mental health is mixed.

    “Prior evidence of the association between John Henryism and mental health is mixed with some studies showing positive associations (especially among women: lower depressive symptomatology, lower network stress; Bronder et al., 2014;Williams and Lawler, 2001) and some showing negative associations (e.g., depression, lower trust, and lower happiness; Angner et al., 2011;Cuffee et al., 2020;Hudson et”

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Authors
Williams, D., & Lawler, K. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (US)
  • University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US)
ORCID
Lawler, Kathleen A.
Venue
Women & Health
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2001-08
Volume
32
Issue
4
Pages
61-75
ISSN
  • 0363-0242 (ISSN-L)
  • 1541-0331
DOI
10.1300/j013v32n04_04
OpenAlex
W2128968776
Cited by
48
References
38
Citations by year
2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
FWCI
2.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Women & Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Keywords
hardiness, John Henryism, low-income women, African American women, racial differences, moderating effect, life events, network stress, physical illness, personality traits, poverty
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Black or African American, Female, Health Status Indicators, Humans, Morbidity, Personality, Poverty, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Stress, Psychological, United States, Women's Health, White People

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