title: Whose stress is making me sick? Network-stress and emotional distress in African-American women.
abstract: Research on stress-related health outcomes in African-American women often neglects "network-stress": stress related to events that occur to family, friends, or loved ones. Data from the African-American Women's Well-Being Study were analyzed to examine self-stress and network-stress for occurrence, perceived stressfulness, and association with symptoms of psychological distress. Women reported a higher number of network-stress events compared with self-stress events. Occurrences of network-stress were perceived as undesirable and bothersome as self-stress. Both types of stress were significantly associated with psychological distress symptoms. Including network-stress may provide a more complete picture of the stress experiences of African-American women.
authors.affiliation: a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing, Chapel Hill , North Carolina , USA.
authors.forename: Cheryl L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Woods-Giscombé
authors.affiliation: b Stony Brook University, Department of Psychology , Stony Brook , New York , USA.
authors.forename: Marci
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lobel
authors.affiliation: c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sociology , Chapel Hill , North Carolina , USA.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zimmer
authors.affiliation: d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine , Chapel Hill , North Carolina , USA.
authors.forename: Crystal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wiley Cené
authors.affiliation: d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine , Chapel Hill , North Carolina , USA.
authors.forename: Giselle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Corbie-Smith
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000368:Aged; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016387:Women's Health; D055815:Young Adult