Appendix A describes the stressors, including internal reliability scores for the subscales within each type. Correlations among our summary stressors were low (ranging from −0.1 to 0.33). The acute life events domain consists of standard measures of traumatic experiences (lifetime) and acute life events (past five years). Employment stressors (Karasek and Theorell, 1990) comprise six measures: job dissatisfaction, job autonomy, job insecurity, work demands, work-life conflicts, and job hazards. Financial stressors contain two measures (Pearlin and Schooler, 1978): financial strain and an inventory of economic problems. Life discrimination combines measures of both racial and nonracial discrimination from an abbreviated inventory of major discriminatory events and a shortened version of the Everyday Discrimination Scale (Williams et al., 1997). Preliminary analyses revealed that both racial and nonracial discrimination were similarly related to our health outcomes. Job discrimination includes two scales (job harassment and unfair treatment at work) adapted from the Perceived Racism Scale (McNeilly et al., 1996) and the Los Angeles Study of Urban Inequality (Bobo and Suh, 2000). The relationship stressors domain consists of five measures adapted from the Americans’ Changing
