Department of Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
Fam Process. 2014 Mar;53(1):109-19. doi: 10.1111/famp.12054. Epub 2013 Nov 19.
Social stress theory proposes that stress resulting from one's social position in society leads to fewer coping resources, and subsequently causes an increase in mental health problems. Guided by this framework, we investigated whether the relationship between perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms was moderated by spousal social support in a sample of 487 African American heterosexual couples. Using the actor-partner interdependence model, findings suggested that female partner's perceived racial discrimination was predictive of her depressive symptomology irrespective of spousal support and male partner's perceived racial discrimination was predictive of depressive symptomology only among men with low levels of spousal support. No partner effects were present. The results demonstrate the need to examine variability in social stress and mental health outcomes for those in close relationships.
社会压力理论提出，由于一个人在社会中的社会地位而产生的压力会导致更少的应对资源，进而导致心理健康问题的增加。在这一框架的指导下，我们调查了在一个由 487 对非裔美国异性恋夫妇组成的样本中，配偶的社会支持是否调节了感知歧视与抑郁症状之间的关系。研究结果采用演员-伙伴相互依赖模型表明，女性伴侣感知到的种族歧视与她的抑郁症状有关，无论配偶支持与否，而男性伴侣感知到的种族歧视仅在配偶支持程度低的男性中与抑郁症状有关。没有伴侣效应。结果表明，需要为处于亲密关系中的人检查社会压力和心理健康结果的可变性。
