For over two decades, the minority stress model has guided research on the health of
sexually-diverse individuals (those who are not exclusively heterosexual) and gender …

Introduction: Allostatic load refers to the cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events.
It involves the interaction of different physiological systems at varying degrees of activity …

Boutwell, Nedelec, Winegard, Shackelford, Beaver, Vaughn, Barnes, & Wright (2017)
published an article in this journal that interprets data from the Add Health dataset as …

Exposure to discrimination or unfair treatment has emerged as an important risk factor for
illness and disease that disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minorities. Discriminatory …

Racial discrimination has been linked to allostatic load (ie, cumulative biological stress)
among African American women. However, limited attention has been given to psychosocial …

Although theoretical and empirical research on the impact of racism on the mental and
physical health of African Americans is well established in the literature, there is still a dearth …

Abstract Rationale John Henryism and Superwoman Schema (SWS) are dispositional
characteristics adopted to overcome the challenges of chronic psychosocial stress, and …

The purpose of this research was to examine the psychometric properties of the Giscombe
Superwoman Schema Questionnaire. Three separate studies conducted with 739 African …

Resilience, the individual trait of being able to persist and cope with, often recurrent,
negative experiences, has experienced an explosion in recent years as a topic of study. In …

Objective The objective of the paper is to critically review the current state of the literature on
the association between discrimination and allostatic load (AL) in adults and determine …