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Collecting Hair Samples for Hair Cortisol Analysis in African Americans
Published on: June 10, 2018
Discrimination and hair cortisol concentration among asian, latinx and white young adults
Tiffany Yip1, Paul Smith2, Michael Tynes1
1Fordham University, Department of Psychology, 441 E. Fordham Road 226 Dealy Hall Bronx, NY, 10458, USA.
Abstract:
Discrimination is a form of chronic stress and hair cortisol concentration is an emerging biomarker of chronic stress. In a sample of 83 first-year college students (age , , 69% female, 84% United States-born, 24% Asian, 21% Latinx, and 55% White), the current study investigates associations between hair cortisol concentration with discrimination stress assessed across two timeframes: past year and past two weeks. Significant associations were observed for past year discrimination and hair cortisol concentration levels, but not for discrimination over the past two weeks. The current study contributes to a growing body of evidence linking discrimination stress exposure to neuroendocrine functioning.
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