Despite this study’s contributions to research on race and daily stressors, several limitations should be acknowledged. It is possible that the findings would be different in a larger, more diverse sample of African Americans that considers diversity within as well as between racial groups (David & Collins, 1997; Williams, 2002). This study also focused on only one class of stressors, daily hassles, although previous work also emphasizes the consequences of stressful life events and chronic strains (Gee, 2002; Kessler et al., 1999; Williams & Mohammed, 2009). Future research should continue to disentangle how exposure to chronic stressors, such as racism, exacerbates reactivity to other daily stressors, such as stressors involving family.
