Marital Status and Life Satisfaction among Black Americans

Ball, Richard E.; Robbins, Lynn

doi:10.2307/352406

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“…It is the dream of African American parents to have better living conditions for their children. Therefore, parents will exhaust their resources to provide entry for their children into the economic and political structure (Ball & Robbins, 1986;Hall & King, 1982).…”

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Understanding the Strengths of African American Families

Littlejohn-Blake

Darling

1993

Journal of Black Studies

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The traditional method of studying families has often focused on the pathological rather than on the strong family. However, accentuating positive aspects could prove to be more important in a long-term basis than simply solving problems and weathering crises. Understanding the strengths of families has great potential for helping to solve many of the problems that families incur (Foster, 1983).Studies of family strengths have generally concentrated on traditional families rather than on nontraditional families such as remarried families, blended families, dual-career families, older

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Understanding the Strengths of African American Families

Littlejohn-Blake

Darling

1993

Journal of Black Studies

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“…The majority of support for the selection hypothesis has been drawn from research on psychiatric populations and is better suited to the explanation of severe disorders, making generalizations to the general population questionable (Pearlin and Johnson 1977). In support of this point, Gove et al (1983) review the available evidence and suggest that "social selection is not a key determinant of the relationship between marital status and mental health in a normal population" (Gove et al 1983, p 123) Ball and Robbins 1986;Staples 1981;Zollar and Williams 1987).…”

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Ethnic differences in the marital status and psychological distress relationship

Takeuchi

Speechley

1989

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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This paper examines the relationship between marital status, as a measure of social support, and psychological distress among three ethnic minorities (Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, and Native Hawaiians) and Caucasians in Hawai'i. A secondary analysis is conducted on survey data collected from a statewide sample of adults. The analyses show that the relationship between marital status and distress conforms to expectations among Caucasians: married adults have a lower level of distress than the non-married. However, the marital status and distress relationship is not consistent across ethnic minorities. We discuss the implications of these findings to the study of social support and distress among ethnic minorities.

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“…Ball and Robbins (1986) suggest the possibility that marital sa~isfaction is not as important a determinant of life satisfaction for blacks as it is for whites. Teachman (1986), examining data from thc National Survey of Family Growth, found that white women with a premarital birth had a greater risk of marital dissolution than did black women with a premarital birth.…”

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