Neighborhood stressors are associated with depressive symptoms and are more likely to be experienced in poor, non-White neighborhoods. Neighborhood stress process theory suggests that neighborhood stressor affect mental health through personal coping resources, such as mastery. Mastery is thought to be both a pathway and a buffer of the ill effects of neighborhood stressors. This research examines the neighborhood stress process with a focus on racial and ethnic differences in the relationship between neighborhood stressors, mastery, and depressive symptoms in a multi-ethnic sample of Chicago residents. Findings suggest race-specific effects on depressive symptoms. Mastery is found to be a pathway from neighborhood stressors to depressive symptoms but not a buffer against neighborhood stressors. Mastery is most beneficial to Whites and those living in low stress neighborhoods. © 2014 The New York Academy of Medicine.
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Gilster, M. E. (2014). Neighborhood stressors, mastery, and depressive symptoms: Racial and ethnic differences in an ecological model of the stress process in Chicago. Journal of Urban Health, 91(4), 690–706. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-014-9877-4
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