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Coping as a Predictor of Health Among African American Siblings; Preliminary Results From (solsaa)

Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Previous research has shown a direct relationship between coping and physical health across gender, age, race/ethnicity and other sociodemographic indicators. Specifically, coping strategies are shown to reduce the impact of stress on physical health. The Study of Longevity and Stress in African Americans (SOLSAA) examines the similarity within African American families with the underlying hypothesis that stress and coping is a learned concept. Using data from the SOLSAA, we investigated the relationship between coping and health status among sibling pairs. Preliminary data included 61 pairs of siblings ranging in age from 44–86 years. Coping measures included positive and negative religious coping (PRC and NRC) and John Henryism (JH). Health indicators included systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP) and body mass index (BMI). The analyses included cross-sibling correlations and co-sibling regressions where one siblings score predicted the other while controlling for the average between sibling score for the other independent variables. The cross-sibling correlations were: BMI=.166; SBP=.174; DBP=.166; and JH=.311; PRC=.068; and NRC=.191. The regression analyses revealed higher average PRC scores predicted higher SBP in the other sibling. For DBP, education was significant with higher education predicting lower DBP. Average BMI and NRC positively predicted the other siblings BMI but age negatively predicted BMI. The preliminary results suggest that there may be dimensions of religious coping that are learned from being in same family and that education is important for understanding health in African Americans.
DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.2434
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,977
OpenAlex ID: W2899985817
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