Barr Ashley B, Simons Ronald L, Beach Steven R H, Simons Leslie Gordon
455 Park Hall, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA.
324 Baldwin Hall, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2022 Mar;296:114768. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114768. Epub 2022 Feb 3.
The current study extends research on the detrimental health implications of racial discrimination by examining how these implications reverberate across romantic relationships. Using two generations of different-gender romantic couples from the Family and Community Health Study, we examined how racial discrimination experienced by a romantic partner was associated with poor health among Black adults, independent of one's own level of racial discrimination. Results from the actor-partner interdependence model showed that beyond the effects of socioeconomic status, health behavior, relationship satisfaction, and own experiences of racial discrimination, a romantic partner's experiences of discrimination were associated with increased psychological distress for both the middle/older-age generation and the young-adult generation. Further, in the middle/older-age generation, partners' experiences of racial discrimination were associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk, particularly for men. These results reiterate recent findings that researchers may underestimate the impact of racial discrimination on health when we fail to consider linked lives. Further, they indicate that there may be gender and generational differences in the individual and relational implications of racial discrimination on health.
当前的研究通过考察种族歧视对健康的有害影响如何在浪漫关系中产生回响，扩展了对种族歧视的研究。我们利用来自家庭与社区健康研究的两代不同性别的浪漫伴侣，考察了浪漫伴侣所经历的种族歧视与黑人成年人健康状况不佳之间的关联，而不考虑个人自身的种族歧视程度。行为者-伴侣相互依赖模型的结果表明，除了社会经济地位、健康行为、关系满意度以及自身种族歧视经历的影响之外，浪漫伴侣的歧视经历与中老年一代和青年一代的心理困扰增加都有关联。此外，在中老年一代中，伴侣的歧视经历与心血管疾病风险增加有关，尤其是对男性而言。这些结果重申了最近的研究发现，即当我们未能考虑相互关联的生活时，研究人员可能会低估种族歧视对健康的影响。此外，它们表明，种族歧视对健康的个体和关系影响可能存在性别和代际差异。
