Biology
This is known as the stress hormone
What is cortisol?
The number of participants picked for the final study
What is 1000 women?
results found that being this as well as being prescribed antidepressants was associated with shorter telomeres
What is Older women?
This scale was used to measure stress
What is the Perceived Stress Scale?
This was not a significant predictor of BMI (only need 1 out of 2 possible answers)
What is emotional coping and perceived stress?
This outdated measure is used to calculate weight
what is BMI?
Blood was collect between this time period
What is 2013-2018?
There were no notable associations between this and this
what is telomere length and racism?
how many/ who were the participants of this study?
What is 110 black American women
Behavioral coping mechanisms and this had a significant association with BMI
what is perceived racism?
Women are more likely to do this than men when stressed
What is over eating?
What is: age, alcohol consumption, smoking status, region of residence, diagnosis of depression, antidepressant use?
slight significance was found when women did this
what is kept racism to themselves?
What were the 3 measures used in the methods?
What is BMI, PSS, and the perceived racism scale?
This was a significant predictor of BMI found in the study
What are behavioral coping responses?
This is at the end of a chromosome and protects the chromosome from degradation
What is a telomere?
a secondary analysis was done on these type of women
What is women who experience moderate/high levels of everyday racism and institutionalized racism?
literature and this current study have found this fact consistent in their research
what is healthy coping decreases stress affecting mental and physical health?
What was the exclusion criteria?
What is current drug, emotional, and domestic abuse as well as any diagnosed psychiatric disorder?
This was significantly greater for obese women compared to normal weight women
what is behavioral coping responses to perceived racism?