Journal of Family Issues
Volume 37, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1678-1702

Mexican Immigrant Wives’ Acculturative Stress and Spouses’ Marital Quality: The Role of Wives’ Marriage Work With Husbands and Close Friends (Article)

Rodriguez Y.* , Helms H.M. , Supple A.J. , Hengstebeck N.D.
  • a The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United States
  • b The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United States
  • c The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United States
  • d The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United States

Abstract

With a sample of 120 Mexican-origin couples, we examined the extent to which wives’ marriage work (i.e., discussions about marital concerns) with husband and marriage work with friend moderated associations between wives’ acculturative stress and spouses’ marital satisfaction and marital negativity. Results from a series of multiple regression analyses showed that wives’ marriage work with husbands (a) served to protect husbands’ marital quality from wives’ acculturative stress and (b) was linked with greater marital satisfaction for wives. These findings represent an important first step in understanding the sociocultural factors that compromise and protect marital quality for couples of Mexican origin as they navigate the challenges of adapting to life in the United States. © 2014, © The Author(s) 2014.

Author Keywords

Marital quality Mexican Americans Marital satisfaction Acculturative stress marriage work marital negativity

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84981250370&doi=10.1177%2f0192513X14561519&partnerID=40&md5=d1f764c36d23c9eae77d148f5f22cb7a
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X14561519
ISSN: 0192513X
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English