title: Stress and Coping among Black Women Employed in Non-professional Service and Professional Occupations in Florida and Georgia.
abstract: Culture enhances the ability to address the stressors related to ethnicity/race, employment, and lifestyle. From this interaction, two coping patterns emerge: individualist-oriented or collectivist-oriented, of which women prefer the latter. However, there is limited knowledge about the impact of ethnicity/race on the coping strategies of Black working women in the USA. Therefore, the purpose of this cross-sectional survey was to examine the coping strategies of two groups of Black women, those who work in non-professional service-related jobs and those employed as professionals. We explored Black women from two southern states, Florida and Georgia, in their use of coping strategies for everyday stressors. A modified version of Lazarus and Folkman's Transactional Model was used as the framework of this study. The sample for this cross-sectional survey consisted of 313 Black women employed in non-professional service jobs and 343 in professional roles. The thoughts and actions related to coping in everyday stressors were measured with The Ways of Coping Questionnaire.
authors.affiliation: a Case Western Reserve University , Bolton School of Nursing , Cleveland , Ohio , USA.
authors.forename: Faye A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Gary
authors.affiliation: b Wayne State University , Center for Health Research , Detroit , Michigan , USA.
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yarandi
authors.affiliation: a Case Western Reserve University , Bolton School of Nursing , Cleveland , Ohio , USA.
authors.forename: Mona
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hassan
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D005845:Georgia; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009790:Occupations; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014931:Women, Working / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult