Issues of Risk and Resilience among African Americans

• Do Unhealthy Lifestyle Factors Play a Stress-buffering Role for African Americans?
  Presented by: K. A. S. Wickrama, Chalandra Bryant
• Marital Quality and Health Among African American Couples
  Presented by: Chalandra M. Bryant, Stephanie R. Burwell, Thulitha Wickrama, Barlynda M. Bryant, Kandauda Wickrama
• Longitudinal Effects of Economic Hardship on African American Children and the Influence of Community and Individual Moderators:  An Extension of the Family Stress Model
  Presented by: Melissa Landers-Potts, Leslie Gordon Simons, K.A.S. Wickrama, Yi-Fu Chen
• Social Environmental Variation, Plasticity Genes, and Antisocial Behavior: Evidence for the Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis
  Presented by: Ronald L. Simons, Leslie Gordon Simons, Man-Kit Lei

Abstracts

Issues of Risk and Resilience among African Americans

Presented by: Leslie Gordon Simons et al

This symposium focuses on risk and resilience among African Americans.  The first paper addresses health risk behaviors of adults resulting from economic hardship and discrimination.  The second paper focuses on married couples to examine the link between marital quality and health risk and promoting behaviors.  The third paper uses a sample of children and their caregivers to address the impact of economic distress on adolescent internalizing and externalizing outcomes.  The fourth paper extends research on gene by environment interaction by including assessments of positive parenting and cognitive mediators. Each of the studies makes a substantial contribution to the extant scholarship.