ArticleInnovation in aging2020
Hopelessness Among Middle-Aged and Older Blacks: The Negative Impact of Discrimination and Protecting Power of Social and Religious Resources.
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- "Moving on Up? Neighborhood Status and Racism-Related Distress among Black Americans".Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2022Article
- The Role of Church Support Networks in the Relationship between Discrimination and Psychiatric Disorders among Older African Americans.Review of religious research · 2022Article
- Hopelessness and HIV infection: an exploratory study with a gender-specific perspective.BMC psychology · 2022Article
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- Gender-specificity of resilience in major depressive disorder.Depression and anxiety · 2021Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesHopelessness-a state of despair characterized by a negative outlook towards the future and a belief in insurmountable challenges-is a risk factor for major depression, cardiovascular disease, and all-cause mortality among older adults. It is also an understudied consequence of discrimination. Older blacks disproportionately report experiencing discrimination and, as a result, may be at greater risk of feeling hopeless. However, social and religious resources may protect against the adverse effects of discrimination. The current study examines whether social support, social engagement, religious attendance, and religiosity buffer the effects of self-reported everyday discrimination on hopelessness among a nationally representative sample of blacks. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsUsing data from the 2010/2012 psychosocial assessment of the Health and Retirement Study, we regressed hopelessness on everyday discrimination, stratifying by 2 age groups, ages 51-64, representing middle-age (
resultsGreater reports of everyday discrimination were associated with higher levels of hopelessness for middle-aged and older blacks. For middle-aged blacks, the resources did not moderate the discrimination-hopelessness relationship; rather, higher levels of support ( DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Findings suggest that self-reported everyday discrimination increases hopelessness among middle-aged and older blacks but social and religious resources may counterbalance its effects, in age-specific ways, to protect against hopelessness. Religiosity may be especially important for older blacks as a buffer against the negative consequences of discrimination on hopelessness.
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