Population health scientists have largely overlooked anticipatory stressors and how different groups of people experience and cope with anticipatory stress. I address these gaps by examining black-white differences in the associations between an important anticipatory stressor—goal-striving stress (GSS)—and several measures of psychophysiology. Hypotheses focusing on racial differences in GSS and psychophysiology are tested using self-report and biomarker data from the Nashville Stress and Health Study (2011–2014), a cross-sectional probability survey of black and white working-age adults from Davidson County, Tennessee (n = 1,252). Compared to their white peers, blacks with higher GSS report greater self-esteem and fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety. However, increased GSS also predicts elevated levels of high-effort coping (i.e., John Henryism), neuroendocrine stress hormones, and blood pressure for blacks but not whites. I discuss the implications of these findings for scholars interested in the stress process and broader black-white health inequalities in the United States.

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黑人奋斗：种族和目标追求的心理生理学。


人口健康科学家在很大程度上忽视了预期压力源以及不同人群如何经历和应对预期压力。我通过研究重要的预期压力源——目标追求压力（GSS）——与几种心理生理学测量之间的关联来解决这些差距。使用纳什维尔压力与健康研究（2011-2014）的自我报告和生物标志物数据来检验关注 GSS 和心理生理学种族差异的假设，该研究是一项针对田纳西州戴维森县黑人和白人工作年龄成年人的横断面概率调查（n = 1,252）。与白人同龄人相比，GSS 较高的黑人自尊心更强，抑郁和焦虑症状更少。然而，GSS 的增加也预示着黑人的高努力应对（即约翰·亨利主义）、神经内分泌应激激素和血压水平升高，但白人则不然。我讨论了这些发现对对美国压力过程和更广泛的黑人与白人健康不平等感兴趣的学者的影响。