title: Moderator effects of cognitive ability and social support on the relation between race-related stress and quality of life in a community sample of black Americans.
abstract: The current study examined the combined moderating effects of cognitive ability and social support on the relation between race-related stress and quality of life in a sample of Black Americans. Participants (N = 323) were administered the Wonderlic Personnel Test (WPT; E. F. Wonderlic Associates, Inc., 1983), the Multidimensional Social Support Scale (MDSS; Winefield, Winefield, & Tiggemann, 1992), the Index of Race-Related Stress-Brief (Utsey, 1999), and the WHOQOL-BREF (The WHO Group, 1998). The findings indicated that cognitive ability and social support, conjointly, moderated the relation between individual and cultural race-related stress and quality of life for Black Americans in the current sample. The paper concludes by discussing the study's findings, limitations, and by offering recommendations for future research related to this area of inquiry.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA. soutsey@vcu.edu
authors.forename: Shawn O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Utsey
authors.forename: Yzette
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lanier
authors.forename: Otis
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bolden
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D044383:Black People / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011287:Prejudice; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D001741:Black or African American