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Racial Stressors

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1. What is/are the research question(s) addressed in this study and what is the purpose (5 points)? The research question(s) addressed in this study is the effects of race-related stressors and hostility on cardiovascular reactivity on 31 African American and 31 Caucasian college men. More specifically to answer how people respond differently to situations in this case to racial stressors. Also addressed is whether African American and Caucasians will respond differently to comparable, racially provocative stressors, (Fang & Myers, 2001). Furthermore, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of racial-stressors on cardiovascular responses among African American and Caucasian men and the role that hostility might play in exacerbating …show more content…

This study has randomized characteristics with a control group, the different video clips dealing with racial-stressors and different questions to the college men participants. What also lead to my decision because the researchers were using video clips and conversations were taking place among the college African American and Caucasian men after the experiment. Another reason why this is an experimental study because this is a plan undertaken to test relationships among variables based on systematic observation of variables that are manipulated by the researcher, (Blessing & Forister, 2013). The relationships among the college African American and Caucasian men are being tested to see if any differences or similarities of racial stressors of movie clips and conversations effect mind and body changes. Given the types of variables as well in this study of (BP) blood pressure, (HR) heart rate, and possibly hostility were important variable indicators in this study. Additionally, any fluctuations in blood pressure and heart rate in reaction to viewing or speaking about racism associated with watching or speaking about anger-provoking and unbiased …show more content…

One of the ANCOVA done is the Physiological Responses to the Stressors which is a series of 2 (ethnicity) x 2 (order) x 3 (film condition) ANCOVA’s were conducted to test for possible order effects on SBP, DBP, and HR reactivity, controlling for body mass and baseline Systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate. The results indicated there were no significant order effects. Therefore, data were distorted through the two orders for all next

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