ArticleCultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology2018
When anger expression might be beneficial for African Americans: The moderating role of chronic discrimination.
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- Anger and emotion regulation strategies: a meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Racial exclusion causes acute cortisol release among emerging-adult African Americans: The role of reduced perceived control.The Journal of social psychology · 2020Trial
- CVD Environmental Health Disparities Tool: systematic evidence mapping of psychosocial stressors, environmental exposures, and cardiovascular diseases to inform disparities research and action.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2026Review
- Racial discrimination and anger expression: a preliminary test of a social cognitive model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Intersection of age and gender: Links between negative interpersonal interactions and both blood pressure and mood in daily life.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Examining the effectiveness of positive reappraisal in the context of discrimination.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- Lifespan psychosocial stressors, optimism, and hemodynamic acute stress response in a national sample.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesAnger expression is assumed to have mostly negative health effects. Yet, evidence is mixed on how anger expression influences African Americans' cardiovascular health. The present research aimed to clarify this link by examining moderating effects of chronic discrimination on the relationship between anger expression and cardiovascular risk among African Americans in experimental (Study 1) and epidemiological (Study 2) studies.
methodStudy 1 examined how African Americans' trait anger expression was linked to (a) physiologic reactivity to acute social rejection during an interracial encounter (Session 1); and (b) total/HDL cholesterol assessed two months later (Session 2). Study 2 examined the relationship between anger expression and total/HDL cholesterol with a larger sample of African Americans from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) survey. Both studies examined perceptions of chronic discrimination as a moderator of the relationships between anger expression and biological responses.
resultsIn Study 1 higher anger expression was associated with quicker cortisol recovery and greater testosterone reactivity following outgroup social rejection in Session 1 and lower total/HDL cholesterol in Session 2. Study 2 replicated the relationship between anger expression and lower total/HDL cholesterol and further showed that this relationship was unique to the expressive aspect of anger. Importantly, in both studies, these potentially beneficial effects of anger expression were only evident among individuals with lower perceptions of chronic discrimination.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that anger expression, when coupled with low levels of chronic discrimination, is associated with adaptive patterns of physiologic responses among African Americans. (PsycINFO Database Record
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