Table 2.

Spearman associations among racial discrimination, life course stress, and prenatal parameters (n = 93)

	1.1	1.2	1.3	1.4	2.1	2.2	2.3	2.4	2.5	2.6
1. Life Course Parameters (ρ)
1.1 Racial discrimination	1.0	-
1.2 Life course stress (total)	0.183	1.0	-
1.3 Life course stress (chronic)	0.234^*	0.712^*	1.0	-
1.4 Life course stress (acute)	0.025	0.758^*	0.187	1.0	-
2. Prenatal Parameters (ρ)
2.1 Perceived stress	0.257^*	0.267^*	0.364^*	0.003	1.0	-
2.2 Depressive symptoms	0.241^*	0.222^*	0.347^*	−0.073	0.777^*	1.0	-
2.3 Plasma IL-6	−0.087	0.050	0.138	−0.050	0.129	0.092	1.0	-
2.4 Plasma IL-8	0.189	0.193	0.089	0.242^*	0.118	0.115	0.016	1.0	-
2.5 Plasma TNF-α	−0.017	0.033	0.107	0.037	0.135	0.178	0.280^*	0.226^*	1.0	-
2.6 Plasma IL-1β	0.017	0.232^*	0.004	0.295^*	0.058	0.075	0.054	0.195	0.169	1.0

Note. Life course stress is operationalized as average stress rating across stressors; IL = interleukin; TNF = tumor necrosis factor; for Spearman rank-order associations, variables are untransformed

p ≤ .05;