Modernization in the Samoas and childrenʼs reactivity
A pilot study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19304557 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph K Murphy (Miriam Hospital), Stephen T Mcgarvey (0000-0003-1233-6970, Miriam Hospital) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 395-400 |
| Publication date | 1994-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychosomatic Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3174 • E-ISSN: 1534-7796 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00006842-199409000-00003 |
| PMID | 7809338 |
| OpenAlex | W2335274336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
This investigation studied the potential effects of societal modernization on Samoan children's blood pressure and heart rate reactivity to a standardized television video game procedure. Ethnic Samoan children were sampled from Western Samoa (N = 72), a relatively underdeveloped country with a largely agricultural economy, and American Samoa (N = 70), a territory of the United States that has undergone substantial modernization due to recent economic aid. Results indicated that Western Samoans demonstrated significantly greater systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate reactivity than American Samoans. These data, in conjunction with previous data, suggest that the hemodynamic effects of an acute stressor are inversely associated with societal modernization and an individual's adoption of a lifestyle reflecting integration into a modernized society. Further work is needed to examine the implications of this hypothesis and the associations among concrete measures of modernization and children's cardiovascular risk
Blood pressure · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Modernization theory · Psychiatry · Samoan · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Stressor · Anthropology · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology
Modernisation and children's blood pressure
Physiological Stress Responses in Filipino-American Immigrant Nurses
Longitudinal Association of Cardiovascular Reactivity and Blood Pressure in Samoan Adolescents
Acculturation to Western Society as a Risk Factor for High Blood Pressure
Body image, body size, and Samoan ecological and individual modernization
The Effect of Animal-Assisted Therapy on Stress Responses in Hospitalized Children
Sociocultural change and health status among the Seri Indians of Sonora, Mexico
| Citations per year | 0.26 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2010 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |