APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Resilience in Unity: Navigating Discrimination’s Impact on Marital Stability in Ethnic Minorities
- Lester Sim
Singapore Management University - Jiaxiu Song
- Lisa Neff
UT Austin - Shanting Chen
- Wen Wen
The University of Texas at Austin - Su Yeong Kim
University of Texas at Austin
Abstract
We investigated whether high levels of ethnic discrimination may mitigate its negative impact on marital relationships using a two-wave dataset of 273 Mexican-origin couples. We found that wives who experienced discrimination reported improved marital function when their husbands also faced greater discrimination, highlighting stress resilience in the face of adversity.
Love and Marriage