Perceived Race-Based Discrimination, Employment Status, and Job Stress in a National Sample of Black Women: Implications for Health Outcomes

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Published in final edited form as: J Occup Health Psychol. 1996 Jul;1(3):319–329. doi: 10.1037//1076-8998.1.3.319

Variable	Factor 1: Barriers	Factor 2: Race	Factor 3: System Blame	Factor 4: Past-Future
Discrimination 20 years before Civil Rights Movement	−.023	.096	.068	.615^a
Discrimination 20 years from now	.069	−.062	−.014	.510^a
Why Blacks don’t do well in life	−.006	−.131	−.597^a	.063
Why Blacks don’t get a good job or education	−.000	.114	−.496^a	−.013
Treated badly because of race	−.005	−.325	.090	.048
Have more skills and ability for better job	.034	.240	.012	−.025
Not hired because Black	−.039	.454^a	.047	−.100
Family responsibilities kept from getting a good job	.438^a	−.046	.041	.092
Ability kept from getting a good job	−.776^a	−.096	−.071	−.067
Blacks kept from getting a good job	−.322	−.397^a	−.357	.049
Not trying hard enough kept from getting a good job	.568^a	−.011	−.015	.035
Not having education or kept from getting a good job	−.686^a	−.067	.009	−.023
Blacks get certain jobs	−.088	.447^a	−.081	.051
Blacks treated badly at work	−.000	−.614^a	.081	−.008
Percentage of total (variance)	12.188	8.313	5.600	4.827
Percentage of common (variance)	36.055	24.591	16.563	15.279

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