REPRINT OF: Racism, Sexism, and Social Class: Implications for Studies of Health, Disease, and Well-being.

Editor's Note: This article is a reprint of a previously published article. For citation purposes, please use the original publication details: Krieger N, Rowley DL, Herman AA, Avery B, Phillips MT. Racism, sexism, and social class: implications for studies of health, disease, and well-being.

The development of a race and gender-specific stress measure for African-American women: Jackson, Hogue, Phillips contextualized stress measure.

Objective: Community-based research was conducted to develop an identity stress measure for African-American women. The aim of the investigation was to capture the voices of African-American women telling their experiences of stress and support and to have their voices inform the development of an identity stress measure representing the realities of being Black and female. In this paper, we describe the components of a race and gender-specific stress measure emerging from a multidisciplinary iterative process that employed qualitative and quantitative methods.