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Life Stress, Health, and Blood Pressure in Black College Students

Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 90024, Fanon Research & Development Center, 12714 S. Avalon Blvd., Suite 301, Los Angeles, Calif. 90061.

Rochelle T. Bastien

Office of Graduate Studies & Research, Mail Point Q-003, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, Calif. 92093

Ralph E. Miles

Fanon Research & Development Center, 12714 S. Avalon Blvd., Suite 301, Los Angeles, Calif. 90061

A multivariate stress and health risk model is pro posed to test the contribution of stress on blood pressure in Black college students. Measures of stress reaction pattern, level of stress exposure, personal level of distress, the availability of social supports, personal and family health history, and health status were ob tained from a sample of 191 Black university students. Multiple regression analyses predicting systolic and diastolic blood pressure overall and by gender sup ported the hypothesis that stress interacts with prior familial health history, personal health status, and level of subjective distress to predict blood pressure. Stress affected health and blood pressure differently for Black males and females.

Journal of Black Psychology, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1-25 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/009579848300900201


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