Predicting relationship stability among midlife African American couples.
Predicting relationship stability among midlife African American couples.
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DOI：
10.1037/a0025874
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发表时间：
2011-12
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Bryant, Chalandra M.
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作者：
Cutrona, Carolyn E.;Russell, Daniel W.;Burzette, Rebecca G.;Wesner, Kristin A.;Bryant, Chalandra M.
本研究探讨了5年以上的关系稳定性预测异性同居和已婚非洲裔美国夫妇提高小学学龄儿童。人际关系的能力-压力-适应模型指导了调查。背景变量被概念化为教育和收入的重要决定因素，而教育和收入反过来又影响家庭结构、压力、关系质量和稳定性。测试的资源变量，增强关系的稳定性。夫妇（N = 207）来自家庭和社区健康研究。在第一波评估的变量（教育，收入，宗教信仰，生物与继家庭状况，婚姻状况，经济压力和关系质量）被用来预测5年后的关系稳定性。更高的教育水平与更高的收入，更低的经济压力和研究表明更稳定的家庭结构（婚姻而不是同居，生物家庭而不是继家庭）有关。这些变量反过来又影响关系的质量和稳定性。在非裔美国人的生活中的一个重要资源，促进关系稳定，通过其与婚姻，生物家庭地位，和妇女的关系质量。加强非裔美国夫妇关系的稳定性需要改变限制教育和收入机会并削弱关系纽带的社会条件。计划，以帮助夫妇与混合家庭是必要的，并纳入精神到文化敏感的关系干预非洲裔美国人夫妇也可能证明是有益的。
This study examined predictors of relationship stability over 5 years among heterosexual cohabiting and married African American couples raising an elementary-school-age child. The vulnerability–stress–adaptation model of relationships guided the investigation. Contextual variables were conceptualized as important determinants of education and income, which in turn influence family structure, stress, and relationship quality and stability. Religiosity was tested as a resource variable that enhances relationship stability. Couples (N = 207) were drawn from the Family and Community Health Study. Variables assessed at Wave 1 (education, income, religiosity, biological vs. stepfamily status, marital status, financial strain, and relationship quality) were used to predict relationship stability 5 years later. Higher levels of education were associated with higher income, lower financial strain, and family structures that research has shown to be more stable (marriage rather than cohabitation and biological-family rather than stepfamily status). These variables, in turn, influenced relationship quality and stability. Religiosity, an important resource in the lives of African Americans, promoted relationship stability through its association with marriage, biological-family status, and women’s relationship quality. Enhancing the stability of African American couples’ relationships will require changes in societal conditions that limit opportunities for education and income and weaken relationship bonds. Programs to assist couples with blended families are needed, and incorporation of spirituality into culturally sensitive relationship interventions for African American couples may also prove beneficial.
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