Table 2. Racial differences in men’s coping strategies and associations between coping and psychological and physiological stress responses.

Coping strategy	n	Frequencies			Relationship with psychological distressa		Relationship with physiological dysregulationb
		Black	White		Main	Interaction	Main	Interaction
		men	men		effects	w/ race	effects	w/ race
		M(SD)	M(SD)		β(SE)	β(SE)	β(SE)	β(SE)
		or %	or %	P	P	P	P	P
Positive reinterpretation	688	13.01	12.13	.006	-.043(.007)	.044(.030)	-.001(.002)	.003(.007)
		(2.07)	(2.38)		<.001	.140	.607	.721
Active coping	687	12.53	12.58	.860	-.038(.008)	.057(.030)	-.001(.002)	.001(.007)
		(2.06)	(2.14)		<.001	.058	.581	.841
Planning	688	13.34	13.06	.378	-.027(.008)	.031(.027)	-.002(.002)	.001(.007)
		(2.29)	(2.33)		<.001	.268	.414	.847
Venting	687	8.64	8.42	.531	.066(.006)	.128(.021)	-.001(.002)	-.004(.006)
		(2.75)	(2.56)		<.001	<.001	.530	.437
Denial	687	6.69	5.73	.002	.056(.009)	.044(.028)	.001(.002)	-.001(.007)
		(2.24)	(1.87)		<.001	.121	.579	.933
Behavioral disengagement	687	6.59	6.54	.871	.050(.008)	.013(.026)	.002(.002)	.002(.006)
		(2.46)	(2.16)		<.001	.609	.261	.733
Stress eating	687	6.92	6.43	.239	.029(.006)	.010(.020)	.001(.001)	-.005(.005)
		(3.09)	(3.04)		<.001	.609	.396	.344
Religious & spiritual coping	690	11.19	10.49	.162	.001(.005)	.009(.019)	-.003(.001)	.008(.005)
		(3.38)	(3.64)		.823	.627	.019	.083
Alcohol abuse	689	5.2	5.1	1.00	.250(.082)	-.648(.289)	-.020(.020)	.044(.069)
					.002	.025	.307	.524
Drug use	694	27.1	11.0	.001	.265(.054)	.439(.146)	-.0002(.013)	-.113(.036)
					<.001	.003	.987	.002
Physically active	692	19.6	37.6	.008	-.057(.038)	-.143(.161)	.008(.009)	.070(.039)
					.136	.375	.373	.070
Smoking	696	25.4-32.2	11.8-15.4	.003-.007	.162(.054)	.174(.151)	.013(.012)	-.065(.034)
					.003	.249	.262	.054

a. Controlling for age, race, educational attainment, and smoking.

b. Controlling for age, race, educational attainment, smoking, and protocol non-adherent.