Understanding the Early Years of Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Couples' Marriages.

Autor: Kanter JB; Department of Child and Family Studies, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA., Proulx CM; Human Development and Family Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Family process [Fam Process] 2021 Sep; Vol. 60 (3), pp. 806-822. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Oct 21.
DOI: 10.1111/famp.12602
Abstrakt: Recent research has identified significant differences in how satisfaction in newlywed relationships progress, with the majority of spouses reporting relatively high marital satisfaction. However, most studies have focused on white, middle class, childless couples, and it is not clear whether these findings hold for socioeconomically disadvantaged couples (those with low educational attainment or income). Further, previous work has largely ignored differences between spouses within the same marriage and the circumstances under which interpersonal processes between spouses are influential to prospective marital satisfaction. Using dyadic growth-mixture modeling and three waves of data from 530 newlywed couples in the Supporting Healthy Marriages study, we simultaneously modeled husbands' and wives' marital satisfaction and identified two classes of couples, labeled the Relatively satisfied class and Husbands' moderate intercept, wives' low, and increasing satisfaction class. Husbands consistently reported better marital satisfaction than their wives regardless of class membership. Wives' perceptions of interpersonal processes during experiences of financial stress predicted class membership. Dissolution rates also differed between classes. We conclude by providing practical implications for working with socioeconomically disadvantaged families.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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