Twenty years of stereotype threat research: A review of psychological mediators

This systematic literature review appraises critically the mediating variables of stereotype threat. A bibliographic search was conducted across electronic databases between 1995 and 2015. The search identified 45 experiments from 38 articles and 17 unique proposed mediators that were categorized into affective/subjective (n = 6), cognitive (n = 7) and motivational mechanisms (n = 4). Empirical support was accrued for mediators such as anxiety, negative thinking, and mind-wandering, which are suggested to co-opt working memory resources under stereotype threat. Other research points to the assertion that stereotype threatened individuals may be motivated to disconfirm negative stereotypes, which can have a paradoxical effect of hampering performance. However, stereotype threat appears to affect diverse social groups in different ways, with no one mediator providing unequivocal empirical support. Underpinned by the multi-threat framework, the discussion postulates that different forms of stereotype threat may be mediated by distinct mechanisms

Risk for chronic kidney disease in the general population: Italian reports for World Kidney Days 2007-2009

The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has rapidlyincreased in recent decades in many countries, leading toconsistent economic implications. Considering the fact thatpatients surviving to CKD often develop end-stage renal disease,the number of patients requiring replacement therapyreached 169/million population (pmp) in Italy in 2004 and342 pmp in the Unites States. Furthermore, CKD weighs onpatients survival with a considerably increased cardiovascular(CV) morbidity and mortality