Barton Allen W, Bryant Chalandra M
Center for Family Research.
Department of Human Development and Family Science.
J Fam Psychol. 2016 Sep;30(6):657-64. doi: 10.1037/fam0000190. Epub 2016 Mar 21.
The present study examined the longitudinal associations among financial strain, trajectories of marital processes, and increases in marital instability concerns among a sample of 280 African American newlywed couples followed over the first 3 years of marriage. Results from dyadic structural equation modeling revealed that financial strain experienced during the early years of marriage was associated with increased marital instability concerns for both husbands and wives. Latent growth curves of marital processes revealed mean declines in appraisals of spousal warmth and increases in appraisals of spousal hostility, with variability between individuals in rates of decline in warmth; further, wives' appraisals of spousal warmth covaried with levels of financial strain, such that high levels of financial strain were associated with steeper declines in spousal warmth appraisals. For both husbands and wives, rates of change in spousal warmth appraisals had a greater influence on increases in marital instability concerns than either starting levels of spousal warmth appraisals or financial strain. Findings highlight the long-term associations between external stress and trajectories of marital appraisals as well as their relative effects on marital distress. (PsycINFO Database Record
本研究调查了280对非裔美国新婚夫妇在婚后头3年的样本中，经济压力、婚姻过程轨迹和婚姻不稳定担忧增加之间的纵向关联。二元结构方程模型的结果显示，婚姻早期经历的经济压力与丈夫和妻子对婚姻不稳定的担忧增加有关。婚姻过程的潜在增长曲线显示，配偶温暖度评价平均下降，配偶敌意评价增加，个体在温暖度下降率上存在差异；此外，妻子对配偶温暖度的评价与经济压力水平相关，即高水平的经济压力与配偶温暖度评价的更急剧下降有关。对于丈夫和妻子来说，配偶温暖度评价的变化率对婚姻不稳定担忧增加的影响，比配偶温暖度评价的起始水平或经济压力更大。研究结果突出了外部压力与婚姻评价轨迹之间的长期关联，以及它们对婚姻困扰的相对影响。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
