The Epidemiology of Coping in African American Adults in the Jackson Heart Study (JHS)

. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2017 Dec 7;5(5):978–994. doi: 10.1007/s40615-017-0445-y

Bivariate correlations between coping responses and covariates, Jackson Heart Study (2000–2004)

	PFE	EFE	PFD	EFD	Religiou s coping	John Henryis m	Coping with discrimi nation, active	Coping with discrimi nation, passive
Age	0.10	0.04	0.05	−0.10	0.08	0.18	−0.09	0.03
Male	0.08	−0.15	−0.13	−0.10	−0.12	−0.03^*	0.01^*	−0.00^*
Income	0.15	0.02^*	−0.22	0.02^*	0.02^*	−0.03^*	0.08	−0.07
Education level	0.10	0.03^*	−0.19	0.14	0.05	−0.03^*	0.14	−0.09
Married	0.05	−0.03^*	−0.09	−0.07	0.02^*	0.04^*	0.03^*	0.03^*
Wealth	0.14	0.04	−0.07	−0.04	0.06	0.09	0.03	−0.01^*
Depressive symptoms	−0.31	−0.15	0.21	0.28	−0.12	0.01^*	0.02^*	0.11
Global stress	−0.17	−0.07	0.06	0.25	−0.06	−0.03^*	0.19	0.05
Everyday discrimination	0.23	−0.05	0.01^*	0.17	−0.05	0.05	0.26	0.14
Lifetime discrimination	0.08	−0.02^*	−0.08	0.13	0.04^*	0.03^*	0.50	0.25
Optimism	−0.27	0.09	−0.14	−0.07	0.10	−0.04	0.02^*	−0.14
Spirituality	0.32	0.22	0.05	−0.12	0.43	0.06	0.02^*	−0.02^*
Interpersonal	0.40	0.35	−0.19	−0.31	0.22	0.02^*	0.01^*	−0.09

PFE=Problem-focused engagement, EFE=Emotion-focused engagement, PFD=Problem-focuseddisengagement, EFD=Emotion-focused disengagement

Denotes non-significant correlation, correlations > ±0.20 are bolded to designate strongest correlations