Helms Heather M, Supple Andrew J, Su Jinni, Rodriguez Yuliana, Cavanaugh Alyson M, Hengstebeck Natalie D
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro.
J Fam Psychol. 2014 Feb;28(1):77-87. doi: 10.1037/a0035738.
Based on data from a sample of 120 first-generation Mexican immigrant couples collected at the start of the Great Recession in the United States, this study tested an actor-partner interdependence mediation model (APIMeM) in which spouses' perceptions of stress related to economic pressure and cultural adaptation were linked to their own and their partners' reports of marital satisfaction through spouses' depressive symptoms and marital negativity. As hypothesized, results supported indirect links between economic and cultural adaptation stressors and spouses' marital negativity and satisfaction: (1) contextual stress was associated with depressive symptoms, (2) depressive symptoms were positively associated with marital negativity for both husbands and wives and negatively associated with marital satisfaction for wives only, and (3) marital negativity was inversely associated with marital satisfaction for both spouses. Two partner effects emerged: (a) husbands' depressive symptoms were positively associated with wives' reports of marital negativity and (b) husbands' marital negativity was inversely related to wives' marital satisfaction. From these findings, we can infer that the psychological distress that arises for Mexican-origin spouses as they respond to the challenges of making ends meet during difficult economic times while they simultaneously navigate adapting to life in a new country is evidenced in their marital quality. Specifically, this study found that contextual stress external to the marital relationship was transmitted via spouses' psychological distress and negative marital exchanges to spouses' marital satisfaction. Wives' marital satisfaction was shown to be uniquely vulnerable to their own and their husbands' depressive symptoms and marital negativity.
基于在美国大衰退开始时收集的120对第一代墨西哥移民夫妇的样本数据，本研究测试了一个行为者-伴侣相互依赖中介模型（APIMeM），在该模型中，配偶对与经济压力和文化适应相关的压力的认知，通过配偶的抑郁症状和婚姻负面情绪，与他们自己以及伴侣对婚姻满意度的报告相关联。正如所假设的那样，结果支持了经济和文化适应压力源与配偶的婚姻负面情绪和满意度之间的间接联系：（1）情境压力与抑郁症状相关，（2）抑郁症状与丈夫和妻子的婚姻负面情绪呈正相关，且仅与妻子的婚姻满意度呈负相关，（3）婚姻负面情绪与配偶双方的婚姻满意度呈负相关。出现了两种伴侣效应：（a）丈夫的抑郁症状与妻子报告的婚姻负面情绪呈正相关，（b）丈夫的婚姻负面情绪与妻子的婚姻满意度呈负相关。从这些发现中，我们可以推断，墨西哥裔配偶在艰难经济时期应对维持生计的挑战，同时适应新国家生活时所产生的心理困扰，在他们的婚姻质量中得到了体现。具体而言，本研究发现，婚姻关系外部的情境压力通过配偶的心理困扰和负面婚姻交流传递到配偶的婚姻满意度。妻子的婚姻满意度被证明特别容易受到她们自己和丈夫的抑郁症状以及婚姻负面情绪的影响。
