Longmire-Avital Buffie, McQueen Chelsea
a Department of Psychology , Elon University , Elon, North Carolina , USA.
b Peabody College of Education and Human Development , Vanderbilt University , Nashville , Tennessee , USA.
Women Health. 2019 Mar;59(3):240-251. doi: 10.1080/03630242.2018.1478361. Epub 2018 Aug 17.
Four out of five Black women in the United States, over the age of 20 years, meet criteria for obesity. A critical determinant of pervasive health disparities, such as obesity, may be the Black woman's sociocultural experience. One part of this experience is the stress that results from daily encounters with microaggressions. Research has been limited on the association of race-related stress with maladaptive health behaviors among Black women and at what age this association is visible. The aim of this exploratory cross-sectional study was to investigate whether perceived race-related stress was associated with an obesity risk behavior, emotional eating. One hundred and forty-nine collegiate Black American women from across the United States completed an anonymous online survey during the summer of 2014. Race-related stress was moderately correlated with emotional eating (r = 0.32, p < 0.001). However, a hierarchical linear regression revealed that the relationship between race-related stress and emotional eating remained significant after controlling for weight range and general perceived stress. Race-related stress contributed an additional 3.9 percent of the explained variance for emotional eating. Interventions for weight loss and management targeting young adult Black women must acknowledge how their perceived racial experience is linked to health behaviors and outcomes.
在美国，年龄超过20岁的黑人女性中有五分之四符合肥胖标准。诸如肥胖等普遍存在的健康差异的一个关键决定因素可能是黑人女性的社会文化经历。这种经历的一部分是日常遭遇微侵犯行为所产生的压力。关于种族相关压力与黑人女性适应不良的健康行为之间的关联以及这种关联在什么年龄显现，研究一直有限。这项探索性横断面研究的目的是调查感知到的种族相关压力是否与一种肥胖风险行为——情绪化进食有关。2014年夏天，来自美国各地的149名美国黑人女大学生完成了一项匿名在线调查。种族相关压力与情绪化进食呈中度相关（r = 0.32，p < 0.001）。然而，分层线性回归显示，在控制体重范围和一般感知压力后，种族相关压力与情绪化进食之间的关系仍然显著。种族相关压力对情绪化进食的解释变异量额外贡献了3.9%。针对年轻成年黑人女性的减肥和体重管理干预措施必须认识到她们所感知的种族经历与健康行为及结果之间的联系。
