Importance of Macro Social Structures and Personality Hardiness to the Stress-Illness Relationship in Low-Income Women

摘要: Abstract Individuals confronted with poverty are at increased risk for disease and death due, in part, to the influence of macro social structures on differential exposure heightened responsiveness stress (Williams, 1990). For this reason, personality hardiness moderating stress-illness relationship a biracial sample (African-American European-American) low-income women was examined. The effect perceptions community illness also studied. Participants (100) completed rating scales, including Social Readjustment, Dispositional Resilience, Community Stress, Seriousness Illness. Hierarchical regression indicated that moderated (p < .01), high stress, low hardy having higher levels illness. In addition, race Caucasian Group mean differences scores w...