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Racial Stress, Acculturation, and Cognitive Functioning in African American Elders.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Racial Stress, Acculturation, and Cognitive Functioning in African American Elders./
Author:	Miller, Fred C.
Description:	153 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-08B(E).
Subject:	Cognitive psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3617572
ISBN:	9781303851216

Racial Stress, Acculturation, and Cognitive Functioning in African American Elders.
Miller, Fred C.

Racial Stress, Acculturation, and Cognitive Functioning in African American Elders. - 153 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Walden University, 2014.

Comparative studies of health-related characteristics in African Americans often assume that all African Americans share the same cultural behavioral pattern. This assumption overlooks the diversity among African Americans, which could influence disease risk and health-related behavior patterns. This secondary analysis evaluated the influence of acculturation and racial stress on the cognitive functioning of elderly African Americans, a population at elevated risk for age-related cognitive decline. Archived data were obtained from the African American Dementia and Aging Program, a longitudinal study of cognitive functioning in elderly African Americans residing in the Pacific Northwest. The data analyzed in this study were collected between 2000 and 2003 from 111 African American participants. Measures included the African American Acculturation Scale, the Schedule of Racist Events, and cognitive measures taken from the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) battery. Hierarchical linear regression was used to test whether acculturation would predict cognitive functioning and racial stress, and whether racial stress would also predict cognitive functioning. Neither hypothesis was supported by the results. Supplementary analyses suggested that 1 of the acculturation subtests, Interracial Attitudes, predicted lower cognitive functioning; and 2 of the acculturation subtests, Religious Beliefs and Practices and Interracial Attitudes, predicted racial stress. The results were explained in terms of characteristics of the study population and possible limitations in the measures used. Further study should improve the limited knowledge concerning the influence of within-group characteristics such as acculturation on the health of African Americans.

ISBN: 9781303851216Subjects--Topical Terms:

523881
Cognitive psychology.

Racial Stress, Acculturation, and Cognitive Functioning in African American Elders.
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