The Costs of Racism for Marriage: How Racial Discrimination Hurts, and Ethnic Identity Protects, Newlywed Marriages Among Latinos
The Costs of Racism for Marriage: How Racial Discrimination Hurts, and Ethnic Identity Protects, Newlywed Marriages Among Latinos
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DOI：
10.1177/0146167211429450
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
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4
通讯作者：
Karney, Benjamin R.
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作者：
Trail, Thomas E.;Goff, Phillip Atiba;Karney, Benjamin R.
种族或民族歧视的经历是一个突出和严重的压力源，与许多重要结果的差异有关。然而，感知到的歧视和婚姻结果之间的联系被对关系压力源的研究所忽视。目前的研究考察了这种联系，并测试了种族认同是否缓冲了歧视与婚姻质量评级和言语攻击之间的关系。330名拉丁裔新婚夫妇完成了感知歧视、种族认同、配偶言语攻击和婚姻质量的测量。每位配偶的面试官也对婚姻质量进行了独立评估。二元分析显示，丈夫的歧视经历负向预测妻子的婚姻质量，但仅适用于种族认同较弱的丈夫。丈夫具有强烈的种族认同的妻子免受这种影响。认同也缓冲了丈夫歧视与妻子言语攻击之间的关系，并在歧视、认同与婚姻质量之间起中介作用。
The experience of racial or ethnic discrimination is a salient and severe stressor that has been linked to numerous disparities in important outcomes. Yet, the link between perceived discrimination and marital outcomes has been overlooked by research on relationship stressors. The current study examined this link and tested whether ethnic identity buffered the relation between discrimination and ratings of marital quality and verbal aggression. A sample of 330 Latino newlyweds completed measures of perceived discrimination, ethnic identity, spouse's verbal aggression, and marital quality. Each spouse's interviewer also independently rated marital quality. Dyadic analyses revealed that husbands' experience of discrimination negatively predicted wives' marital quality, but only for husbands with weak ethnic identity. Wives whose husbands had strong ethnic identity were buffered from this effect. Identity also buffered the relation between husbands' discrimination and verbal aggression toward their wives, and this effect mediated the association between discrimination, identity, and marital quality.