ArticleArchives of general internal medicine2019
High sense of mastery reduces psychological distress for African American women but not African American men.
Article in Archives of general internal medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- The Strong Black Woman Schema and Mental Health: Examining the Role of Personal Mastery.The Journal of black psychology · 2025Article
- Sense of Mastery Explains Social Patterning of Health.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Educational Attainment Better Protects Non-Latino than Latino People Against Diabetes Mellitus.Global journal of cardiovascular diseases · 2025Article
- "To Be Twice as Good to Get Half": Minorities' Diminished Returns.Journal of biomedical and life sciences · 2025Article
- Physical Limitations, Health Rumination/Worry, and Depressive Symptoms: Gender Differences among African Americans.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Self-Control, Openness, Personal Need for Structure and Compensatory Control Change: A Serial Mediation Investigation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Diminished Returns of Educational Attainment on Body Mass Index Among Latino Populations: Insights from UAS Data.Global journal of epidemiology and infectious disease · 2024Article
- Gendered Racial Microaggressions, Psychosocial Resources, and Depressive Symptoms among Black Women Attending a Historically Black University.Society and mental health · 2022Article
- Association between maternal psychological factors and offspring executive function: analysis of African-American mother-child dyads.Pediatric research · 2022Article
- Social support and acute stress symptoms (ASSs) during the COVID-19 outbreak: deciphering the roles of psychological needs and sense of control.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2020Article
- Neuroticism polygenic risk score predicts 20-year burden of depressive symptoms for Whites but not Blacks.Journal of medical research and innovation · 2020Article
- Are characteristics associated with strong Black womanhood linked to depression in older Black women?Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
Recent research has suggested that relative to Whites, African Americans (AAs) may be at a systemic disadvantage regarding the health effects of socioeconomic position (SEP) indicators as well as psychological assets (e.g., sense of mastery). However, less is known about how these diminished returns differ between AA men and women. This study tested whether AA men and women differ in the mental health effects of high sense of mastery. The National Survey of American Life (NSAL, 2003) recruited 3570 AA adults who were either female (n = 2299) or male (n = 1271). Dependent variable was psychological distress. Independent variable was sense of mastery. Gender was the focal moderator. Age and educational attainment were the covariates. Multiple linear regression model was applied for statistical analysis. Overall, high sense of mastery was associated with lower psychological distress. Significant interaction was found between gender and sense of mastery on psychological distress suggestive of a stronger association for AA women compared to men. A smaller mental health gain of high sense of mastery for AA men compared to AA women is indicative of within race heterogeneity regarding diminished returns. Racism and discrimination may be why high sense of mastery does not translate to mental health gain for AA men.
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