Financial strain, trajectories of marital processes, and African American newlyweds' marital instability.

ABSTRACT: 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 level

SUBMITTER: Barton AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5014652 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature