scholarly journals Childhood maltreatment and resource acquisition in African American women: The role of self-esteem.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah M. Clark ◽  
Timothy D. Immelman ◽  
Ariel R. Hart ◽  
Nadine J. Kaslow
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Resource Acquisition ◽  
American Women

African American Women Seeking Strength in Romance and Family Relationships

2017 ◽  
pp. 193-211
Author(s):  
Maudry-Beverley Lashley ◽  
Vanessa Marshall ◽  
TyWanda McLaurin-Jones
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Synergistic Effects ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Family Dynamic ◽  
American Women ◽  
Mental Well Being

Family interactions play a central role in creating relationships. The dynamic roles of intersectionality and biopsychosocial factors including culture, race, gender and environments stimulate the synergistic effects of relationships. Sociocultural contexts provide meaning to individual lives. The mechanisms within a family dynamic impact the formation of life decisions and overall health, spiritual and mental well-being. The purpose of this chapter is to explain and expand on how many African American women and LGBTQ couples create and interpret family dynamics and romantic relationships; specifically investigating the influential impact of kinship support, the role of the sandwich generation and the occupation of the Black woman as a primary caregiver.

Abstract 1465: Regulatory role of miRNA-661 in triple-negative breast cancer of African American women

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline S. Fonseca ◽  
Selene Elifio-Esposito ◽  
Marilesia F. Souza ◽  
Akanksha Mahajan ◽  
Yara R. Zabala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Triple Negative Breast Cancer ◽  
Triple Negative ◽  
Regulatory Role ◽  
American Women

scholarly journals The Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Alcohol-Related Problems in a Community Sample of African American Women

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Klein ◽  
Claire E. Sterk ◽  
Kirk W. Elifson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
American Women ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

Purpose. This study examines the prevalence of alcohol-related problems, the factors underlying these problems, and whether or not there is evidence of syndemic effects in a community population of southern, urban African American women.Methods. Questionnaire-based interviews were conducted with 817 women, all African American, from 80 targeted census block groups in Atlanta, Georgia.Results. Most of the alcohol users (67.8%) experienced at least one problem as a result of their alcohol (ab)use, with most women experiencing two or more such problems. Eight factors were found to be associated with experiencing more alcohol problems: being aged 30 or older, having had no recent health insurance, lower levels of educational attainment, self-identifying as lesbian or bisexual, experiencing greater amounts of childhood maltreatment, greater impulsivity, perceiving one’s local community or neighborhood to be unsafe, and having a larger number of criminally involved friends.Conclusions. Drinking-related problems were prevalent in this population. Numerous factors underlie the extent to which African American women experienced problems resulting from their alcohol use. There is strong evidence of syndemic-type effects influencing drinking problems in this population, and future efforts to reduce the negative impact of alcohol (ab)use ought to consider the adoption of programs using a syndemics’ theory approach.

Attachment Mediates the Childhood Maltreatment–Daily Hassles Link in Low-Income, Suicidal African American Women

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 739-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noëlle Santorelli ◽  
Amanda Woods ◽  
Erica Carlin ◽  
Angelika Marsic ◽  
Nadine J. Kaslow
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Daily Hassles ◽  
American Women

Locus of control and self-esteem in depressed, low-income African-American women

1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherryl H. Goodman ◽  
Eileen L. Cooley ◽  
Daniel R. Sewell ◽  
Naomi Leavitt
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
American Women

Tennessee Self-Concept Scale Scores of Urban African-American Women

2002 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 915-919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxie P. Kohler ◽  
Gary L. Sapp ◽  
Emmett T. Kohler ◽  
Rebecca Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Social Skills Training ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
American Women ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
The Average Range ◽  
Tennessee Self Concept Scale

The Tennessee Self-concept Scale: Second Edition scores of 33 urban, African-American women were compared in a pretest-posttest design. The treatment was exposure to a 3-mo. literacy and social skills training program. Contrary to expectations, scores on just two subscales—Self-criticism and Physical Self—fell outside the average range. Also, Physical Self was the only scale score to change significantly (–3.83). These results suggest that self-esteem scores of urban African Americans were similar to those of women in the general population.

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