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JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
卷 33, 期 1, 页码 13-21出版社
HOGREFE PUBLISHING CORP
DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000201
关键词
heart rate variability; perceived ethnic discrimination; rumination; emotion regulation
资金
- Ohio State University College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Ohio State University Graduate School
- Ohio State University College of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
- FAPESP, a Brazilian research funding institution in the state of Sao Paulo
- Ohio State University
- National Institute of Aging [5T32AG000029]
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health [R01HL121708]
Ethnic discrimination (ED) is both an unfortunate and uncontrollable phenomenon that uniquely impacts African Americans (AAs) and other individuals of ethnic minority status. Perceived ethnic discrimination (PED), defined as the degree to which an individual consciously perceives a negative event as discriminatory and threatening, largely determines the impact that ED can have on target individuals. However, research has not yet considered how individual differences in both emotion regulation abilities, as indexed by resting high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), and rumination, a maladaptive emotion regulation strategy, may predict PED in AAs. The following investigation examined this relationship in a sample of 101 college-aged students (45 AAs and 56 Caucasian Americans). Resting HF-HRV was assessed via electrocardiogram during a 5-minute-resting period. Rumination was assessed using the ruminative responses scale and everyday PED was assessed using the perceived ethnic discrimination questionnaire. Results showed a significant negative relationship between resting HF-HRV and PED in AAs only. Rumination significantly moderated this relationship, such that lower HF-HRV was related to higher PED only in AAs who reported moderate to higher, beta = 0.417 (0.125), p < .01, levels of trait rumination. These results suggest that greater HF-HRV and lesser ruminative tendencies are key factors in reducing PED and therefore possibly, negative consequences associated with ED.
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