This study examines the direct effects of demographic variables, religiosity, psychosocial stress variables (i.e., financial and relational stress, reported exposure to injustice), and sociostructural variables (i.e., racism) on the communal attitudes of African American men. Age and educational attainment were not systematically associated with communalism. However, there is some evidence of a negative relationship between income and communalism. Relational stress, financial stress, and stress due to everyday racism were not systematically related to communalism. Subjective religiosity and early religious involvement positively predicted communal attitudes; however, organizational religious involvement did not. Implications of these findings are discussed.
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