TY - JOUR
AU - Clark, Rodney
AB - Parental History of Hypertension and Coping Responses Predict Blood Pressure Changes in Black College Volunteers Undergoing a Speaking Task About Perceptions of Racism RODNEY CLARK,PHD Objective: This investigation explored the relationship of coping responses and parental history of hypertension to task-induced blood pressure changes. Materials and Methods: The sample consisted of 215 black college student volunteers (median age 25.95 y). During the speaking task, participants responded to standardized questions about perceptions of intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic group racism. Systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure were measured via an automated blood pressure monitor. Usual ways of coping with intra-ethnic group racism were assessed with the COPE Scale, and parental history of hypertension (PHH) was self-reported by participants. Results: Findings from the final step of hierarchical general linear models indicated that the main effect of emotion-focused coping was negatively associated with diastolic blood pressure (p 
 0.02) and systolic blood pressure (p 
 0.002) changes. Further, these analyses revealed that PHH interacted: (1) with the coping responses of planning (p 
 0.007) and denial (p 
 0.002) to predict changes in systolic blood pressure and (2) with the planning coping response to predict diastolic blood pressure changes (p 
 0.02). The 
TI - Parental History of Hypertension and Coping Responses Predict Blood Pressure Changes in Black College Volunteers Undergoing a Speaking Task About Perceptions of Racism
JF - Psychosomatic Medicine
DO - 10.1097/01.PSY.0000097331.10458.F1
DA - 2003-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/parental-history-of-hypertension-and-coping-responses-predict-blood-L4l8R4X8yc
SP - 1012
EP - 1019
VL - 65
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -