APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Resilience in Unity: Navigating Discrimination’s Impact on Marital Stability in Ethnic Minorities

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Social

  • 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

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