Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA.
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA.
J Behav Med. 2019 Oct;42(5):860-872. doi: 10.1007/s10865-018-00009-w. Epub 2019 Jan 3.
Education has demonstrated consistent links with many aspects of physical health and is theorized to relate to a variety of behavioral and psychosocial antecedents of health that may ultimately account for these associations. However, many of these associations and the extent to which they manifest specifically for African Americans have not been thoroughly tested. We examined associations of education-distinct from income-with established behavioral and psychosocial antecedents of health in a national sample of African Americans. Education favorably related to many behavioral (e.g., fruit/vegetable intake, lifetime smoking) and psychosocial (e.g., self-efficacy, personality traits, self-esteem, psychological well-being) antecedents of health, but not to all. Some evidence of stronger salutary relations of education for women was found. Results suggest that, for African Americans, education is generally favorably associated with an array of behavioral and psychosocial antecedents of physical health, partially explaining health disparities and providing a point of intervention moving forward.
教育与许多身体健康方面有着一致的联系，并且据推测与健康的各种行为和心理社会前因有关，这些前因最终可能解释了这些关联。然而，许多这些关联以及它们在多大程度上专门适用于非裔美国人，尚未得到充分的检验。我们在一个全国性的非裔美国人样本中，研究了教育与健康的既定行为和心理社会前因之间的关联，而这些关联与收入无关。教育与许多行为（例如，水果/蔬菜摄入，终生吸烟）和心理社会（例如，自我效能，人格特质，自尊心，心理健康）前因之间呈有利关系，但并非全部。有证据表明，教育对女性的有益关系更强。结果表明，对于非裔美国人来说，教育通常与一系列行为和心理社会的身体健康前因有关，这部分解释了健康差距，并为未来的干预措施提供了一个切入点。
