Racist white stereotypes and physician race : factors influencing black health care related responses
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: The current research assesses whether Black anti-white bias (as measured by the Johnson-Lecci scale of anti-white bias) and/or physician race might influence Black participant health care related responses. The major results indicated that participants in the White physician condition reported less physician trust than those in the Black physician condition. Additionally, the results indicated that high bias participants reported less physician trust than low bias participants. However, these main effects were qualified by two interactions between bias level and physician race. Specifically, trust responses did not vary as a function of physician race for participants in the control and Black physician condition. Conversely, in the White physician condition, high bias participants reported less trust than low bias participants. Additionally, symptom severity threshold responses (i.e., the threshold for seeking medical assistance) did not vary as a function of bias level for participants in the control and Black physician condition. Conversely, in the White physician condition, high bias participants reported a higher severity threshold than low bias participants.
Author: Duane J. Thomas
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1747980602