Psychometric properties of the Posttraumatic Stress Checklist among young African-American men and women.

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Kibler ◽  
Mindy Ma ◽  
Judith A. Lyons ◽  
Katherine M. Dollar ◽  
Kamielle Brisco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Men And Women

scholarly journals Do the Same Central Anthropometric Variables that Best Predict Blood Pressure in European Americans also Best Predict Blood Pressure in African Americans?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-356
Author(s):  
L. Jerome Brandon ◽  
Larry D. Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
African American ◽  
Waist Circumference ◽  
African American Men ◽  
European American ◽  
Central Adiposity ◽  
Anthropometric Indices ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
European Americans ◽  
Blood Pressures

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine if central anthropometric vari­ables that best estimate blood pressure risks in European Americans also best estimate blood pressure risks in African Americans.Design: The participants were 357 nor­motensive African and European American volunteers with a mean age of 32.6 ± 12.4 years. Participants were evaluated for central adiposity with dual energy X-ray ab­sorptiometry, abdomen and thigh skinfolds, waist and hip circumferences, waist/hip ratio, waist/height ratio, body mass index, and systolic and diastolic blood pressures. Descriptive statistics, partial correlations, ANOVA and stepwise regressions were used to analyze the data.Results: Central adiposity anthropometric indices made different contributions to blood pressure in African and European American men and women. When weight was held constant, waist circumference shared stronger partial relationships with blood pressure in African Americans (r = .30 to .47) than in European Americans (r = .11 to .32). Waist circumference in com­bination with other indices was a predictor of systolic and diastolic blood pressures in European American men (P<.05) but only a predictor for diastolic blood pressure in African American men and women (P<.01). Hip circumference was the only predic­tor for systolic blood pressure (P<.01) in African American men and women.Conclusions: Further research on the rela­tive contributions of central anthropometric indices to blood pressure in African and European Americans is warranted. A better understanding of this relationship may help reduce hypertensive morbidity and mortali­ty disparities between African and European Americans. Ethn Dis. 2020;30(2):349-356; doi:10.18865/ed.30.2.349

Age Differences in Knowledge about HIV Transmission among African-American Men and Women

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1133-1140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Kathleen Burlew
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Older African Americans ◽  
The Difference

To test whether knowledge about HIV transmission may be one contributing factor to the disproportionately high rates of HIV and AIDS cases among older African Americans, this study examined data from 448 African-American men and women, who completed the AIDS Knowledge and Awareness Scale. Overall the findings supported the hypothesis that older African Americans were not as knowledgeable as their younger counterparts. However, the analyses also indicated older (age 61+) African-American women were significantly less knowledgeable about HIV transmission than the younger women. However, the difference between older and younger men was not significant. One implication is that older African Americans, especially women, should be targets of educational efforts.

Abstract P084: Associations of Anger and Hostility with the Metabolic Syndrome: Cross-sectional Analyses from the Jackson Heart Study

Circulation ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 125 (suppl_10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice E Williams ◽  
Sharon B Wyatt ◽  
Mario Sims ◽  
Thomas H Mosley ◽  
Patricia M Dubbert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
African American ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease Risk ◽  
Continuous Variables ◽  
Jackson Heart Study ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Heart Study

There is evidence that anger and hostility are positively associated with the metabolic syndrome. In turn, the metabolic syndrome mediates the association between anger and hostility and adverse cardiac events. Very little is known about these associations in African-American populations. We assessed the hypothesis that anger and hostility are positively associated with the metabolic syndrome in an African-American cohort. Participants were 2,732 African-American men and women, ages 45 – 95, who were enrolled in the Jackson Heart Study at baseline. Anger was measured using the Spielberger State-Trait Anger Inventory, and hostility was measured using the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale. The metabolic syndrome was defined by the National Cholesterol Education Program, Adult Treatment Panel III criteria. Overall anger, components anger-in and anger-out, and hostility scores were entered into separate logistic regression models as continuous variables. In models adjusted for age, sex, educational level, and physical activity, higher levels of overall anger (β = 0.024, p = 0.006), anger-in (β = 0.028, p = 0.04), anger-out (β = 0.037, p = 0.04), and hostility (β = 0.021, p = 0.04) were associated with an increased prevalence of the metabolic syndrome. The correlation between anger and hostility was statistically significant but not strong (r = 0.38, p <0.0001). In men, 5 of the 16 individual anger items were significantly associated with the metabolic syndrome. The strongest was “I lose my temper” (β = 0.395, p = 0.003) and “I tend to harbor grudges” (β = 0.314, p = 0.008). In women, only 1 anger item, “I make sarcastic remarks” (β = 0.189, p = 0.04) was associated with the metabolic syndrome. In conclusion, higher levels of overall anger, anger-in, anger-out, and hostility were associated with an increased prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in middle- and older-aged African-American men and women. In men, an angry temperament and a tendency to hold grudges were particularly strong correlates of the metabolic syndrome. Increased understanding of the negative emotions anger and hostility among African-Americans may provide greater insights into cardiovascular disease risk in their population.

The Devil’s Gonna Get You

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Gussow
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Bessie Smith ◽  
Lyric Tradition ◽  
The Devil

This chapter explores a major theme within the blues lyric tradition: the devil as a figure who haunts intimate relationships between African American men and women. In some cases, men imagine themselves as footloose, mistreating devils; in other cases, they complain about romantic rivals who act in that way; in still other cases, they rage as their women, in thrall to the devil, grow cold to the touch or transfer their feelings to some other man. Artists covered include Lonnie Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Skip James, and Sonny Boy Williamson, along with Bessie Smith, Koko Taylor, and other black women who call on the devil to punish their no-good man—or, alternately, reject him as a mistreating devil rather than the angel he appeared at first to be.

Elizabeth Keckly’s Union War

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-62
Author(s):  
Tamika Y. Nunley
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Men ◽  
African American Woman ◽  
American Woman ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Men And Women

This essay shows what the Union meant from the perspective of an African American woman. Elizabeth Keckly is most famous as Mary Lincoln’s seamstress and confidant, as a memoirist, and as a leader in Washington’s African American community. The essay places Keckly’s life and words into a broader historiographic context and argues that Keckly envisioned a Union of politicized African American men and women.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 282-290
Author(s):  
Libra R. Hilde
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Family ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
African American Family ◽  
American Family ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Black Fathers ◽  
The World ◽  
Dominant Narratives

As Americans grapple with the most recent spate of deaths of African American men and women at the hands of the police, we are once again confronting damaging stereotypes about the Black family and Black masculinity rooted in the legacy of slavery. This book explores the masculine hierarchy of slavery that continues to influence current attitudes and shape public policy. Even as the world has changed, attitudes about human hierarchies have remained deeply entrenched. By telling the story of the often quietly heroic efforts that enslaved and free men undertook to be fathers, this book offers a counterpoint to the dominant narratives about the pathology of the African American family and absent Black fathers.

scholarly journals Physical Function Among Retirement-Aged African American Men and Women

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. O. Clark ◽  
C. M. Callahan ◽  
S. M. Mungai ◽  
F. D. Wolinsky
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Physical Function ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Men And Women
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