Social Support as a Mediator of the Personality-Physical Functioning Relationship in a National Sample of African Americans: A Two-Wave Longitudinal Study

IF 2.5 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Black Psychology Pub Date : 2021-08-13 DOI:10.1177/00957984211037970

E. Clark, Lijing Ma, B. Williams, Crystal L. Park, C. Knott, Emily K. Schulz, Debarchana Ghosh

{"title":"Social Support as a Mediator of the Personality-Physical Functioning Relationship in a National Sample of African Americans: A Two-Wave Longitudinal Study","authors":"E. Clark, Lijing Ma, B. Williams, Crystal L. Park, C. Knott, Emily K. Schulz, Debarchana Ghosh","doi":"10.1177/00957984211037970","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigates whether social support mediates the relationship between personality traits and physical functioning among African Americans over 2.5 years. Data were collected from a national probability sample of African American adults (analytic sample N = 312). Telephone surveys included measures of the five-factor model personality traits, social support, and physical functioning. Personality traits were assessed at Time 1 (T1), and social support and physical functioning were assessed 2.5 years later at Time 2 (T2). Physical functioning was assessed using the SF-12 at T2. Results indicated that T2 social support mediated the relationship between T1 personality traits and T2 physical functioning for the traits of conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, but not for openness to experience. This information may be useful to healthcare providers and community members in developing strategies targeting personality traits in cultivating social support for health promotion.","PeriodicalId":47588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Black Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":"43 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Black Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00957984211037970","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

The present study investigates whether social support mediates the relationship between personality traits and physical functioning among African Americans over 2.5 years. Data were collected from a national probability sample of African American adults (analytic sample N = 312). Telephone surveys included measures of the five-factor model personality traits, social support, and physical functioning. Personality traits were assessed at Time 1 (T1), and social support and physical functioning were assessed 2.5 years later at Time 2 (T2). Physical functioning was assessed using the SF-12 at T2. Results indicated that T2 social support mediated the relationship between T1 personality traits and T2 physical functioning for the traits of conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, but not for openness to experience. This information may be useful to healthcare providers and community members in developing strategies targeting personality traits in cultivating social support for health promotion.

查看原文本刊更多论文

社会支持在非裔美国人人格-身体功能关系中的中介作用:两波纵向研究

本研究调查了社会支持是否在非裔美国人2.5年的人格特征和身体功能之间起中介作用。数据收集自非裔美国成年人的全国概率样本(分析样本N = 312)。电话调查包括五因素模型人格特征、社会支持和身体功能的测量。在时间1 (T1)评估人格特征，在2.5年后的时间2 (T2)评估社会支持和身体功能。在T2时使用SF-12评估身体功能。结果表明，T2社会支持在尽责性、外向性、亲和性和神经质等T1人格特征与T2身体功能之间起中介作用，而在经验开放性方面不起中介作用。这些信息可能有助于医疗保健提供者和社区成员制定针对人格特征的策略，以培养促进健康的社会支持。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Black Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

8.00

自引率

5.80%

发文量

期刊介绍： The Journal of Black Psychology publishes scholarly contributions within the field of psychology toward the understanding of the experience and behavior of Black populations. This includes reports of empirical research and discussions of the current literature and of original theoretical analyses of data from research studies or programs. Therefore, the Journal publishes work in any of the areas of cognition, personality, social behavior, physiological functioning, child development, education, and clinical application, in addition to empirical research and original theoretical formulations outside traditional boundaries, all integrated by a focus on the domain of Black populations and the objective of scholarly contributions.