Citation

Vargas EA, Li Y, Mahalingham R, Hui P, Liu G, Lapedis M, Liu JR. J. Health Psychol. 2018; ePub(ePub): 1359105318800141.

Affiliation

University of Michigan, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105318800141

PMID

30229675

Abstract

The People's Republic of China has experienced extraordinary economic growth, which is associated with increases in chronic health stressors. We examined the impact of John Henryism-[a strategy for coping with prolonged exposure to stresses such as social discrimination by expending high levels of effort which results in accumulating physiological costs]-on various health indicators in a sample of patients ( n = 642) in China. John Henryism significantly related to increased medical adherence [Formula: see text] and health-promotional behaviors [Formula: see text]. John Henryism predicted several indicators of psychological health through social support. John Henryism was also related to increased alcoholism [Formula: see text]. The findings highlight the complexity and paradoxical implications of John Henryism on health. Implications are discussed in relation to China's epidemiological and age demographic shifts.

Language: en

Keywords

John Henryism; People’s Republic of China; psychological health