ArticleCultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology2018
Justice for all? Beliefs about justice for self and others and telomere length in African Americans.
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- Telomere length analysis from minimally-invasively collected samples: Methods development and meta-analysis of the validity of different sampling techniques: American Journal of Human Biology.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2021Pooled it
- Molecular markers, mechanisms and metrics of biological aging: a scoping review.Frontiers in aging · 2026Review
- Age and gender intersectionality among African Americans: Salivary uric acid is associated with shorter telomere length in younger adults and men.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- Does Adulthood Socioeconomic Status Predict Subsequent Telomere Length in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Women?Journal of biomedical and life sciences · 2024Article
- Justice beliefs for self and others: Associations with positive and negative affectivity in African Americans and White Americans.PloS one · 2024Article
- Belief in a just world, health-related quality of life, and mental health among Chinese patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- High sense of mastery reduces psychological distress for African American women but not African American men.Archives of general internal medicine · 2019Article
- Educational Attainment Better Protects African American Women than African American Men Against Depressive Symptoms and Psychological Distress.Brain sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveBelieving in justice can protect health. Among marginalized racial minorities however, both endorsing and rejecting beliefs about justice might be critical. The current research examined links between African Americans' beliefs about justice for self and for others and telomere length (TL)-an indicator of biological aging that is increasingly implicated in racial health disparities, with shorter telomeres indicating poorer health.
methodHealthy African Americans (N = 118; 30% male; M age = 31.63 years) completed individual differences measures of justice beliefs for self and others and then provided dried blood spot samples that were assayed for TL.
resultsWe expected that a belief in justice for self would be positively associated with TL, whereas a belief in justice for others would be negatively associated. A significant 3-way interaction with chronological age confirmed this hypothesis-among older African Americans, TL was positively associated with believing in justice for self, but only when this belief was accompanied by a weak endorsement of the belief in justice for others.
conclusionFindings underscore that for racial minorities, health might be best protected when justice beliefs are both endorsed and rebuffed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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