ArticleThe Gerontologist2022
Early Life Racial Discrimination, Racial Centrality, and Allostatic Load Among African American Older Adults.
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- Disparities in Allostatic Load Among Different Races: A Comprehensive Scoping Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Review
- Intervening to reduce sedentary behavior among African American elders: the "Stand Up and Move More" intervention.Health promotion perspectives · 2024Article
- Necessary, burdensome, or threatening? Awareness of Black-White disparities in health care access and self-rated health for Black and White Americans.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2024Article
- Discrimination, Racial Identity, and Hypertension Among Black Americans Across Young, Middle, and Older Adulthood.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
- Race, Age, and Allostatic Load Among Men in the Nashville Stress and Health Study.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesPrior research documents accelerated physiological aging among African Americans due to their greater lifetime exposure to social and economic adversity. Yet, less is known about the mechanisms through which early life stressors, such as early life racial discrimination (ELRD), and later life psychosocial resources, such as racial centrality (i.e., importance of Black identity to one's sense of self), interact to shape allostatic load (AL) in adulthood. We evaluate the life course processes linking ELRD, adult racial centrality, and adult AL among older African Americans. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsData from the Nashville Stress and Health Study included African Americans aged 50 and older (N = 260). Poisson regression models assessed the links between ELRD, adult centrality, and adult AL. Interactions determined whether ELRD conditions the centrality-AL association in adulthood.
resultsAdolescent ELRD conferred significantly higher levels of adult centrality and 32% increased risk of high adult AL. Greater adult centrality was linked to high adult AL, but the ELRD-adult AL association was not explained by centrality. However, ELRD and centrality interact to shape adult AL, such that racial centrality was protective against high adult AL for those who experienced racial discrimination as children or adolescents. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Findings highlight the multiple pathways through which racism-related stressors and psychosocial resources interact to shape physiological dysregulation in later life and underscore the health significance of racial identity for older African Americans. Clinicians and public health professionals should assess early life stressors and foster psychosocial resilience to promote healthy aging.
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