Table 7.

Summary of Hierarchical Linear Regression Examining Correlates of Psychological Distress among African American women (n = 227)

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
	B (SE)	β	B (SE)	β	B (SE)	β
Age	− 0.04 (0.01)***	−.24	− 0.03(.01)***	− 0.22	−0.02 (.01)**	− 0.16
Racial Microaggressions			0.04 (.01)***	0.24	0.02 (.00)*	0.13
Obligation to show Strength and Suppress Emotions					0.16 (.02)***	0.45
R2		.05***		.11***		.29***
ΔR2				.12***		.30***

^*p <.05;

^**p < .01;

^***p ≤ .001