• 219-01 - Longitudinal Associations Between Marital Quality and Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican American Couples. Presented by: Lorey A. Wheeler, Kimberly A. Updegraff, Adriana Umaña-Taylor
• 219-02 - Implications of African American Couples’ Gendered Family Roles for Changes in Marital Love: A Longitudinal Study. Presented by: Christine E. Stanik, Susan M. McHale
• 219-03 - Linking Work Stress and Sexual Satisfaction Among African American Newlywed Couples. Presented by: Chalandra M. Bryant, Allen W. Barton, Emily L. Smith
• 219-04 - Economic Hardship, Acculturative Stress and Marital Quality Among Mexican-origin Couples: A Dyadic Approach. Presented by: Heather M. Helms, Andrew J. Supple, Jinni Su, Yuliana Rodriguez, Alyson Cavanaugh

Abstracts

Marital Well-being in Diverse Contexts

Presented by: Heather M. Helms, Lorey A. Wheeler, Christine E. Stanik, Chalandra M. Bryant, Daniel Perlman, Yuliana Rodriguez

The symposium features the work of four research groups focused on advancing our field's understanding of marital quality among Mexican American and African American couples by examining spouses' personal qualities/attitudes, the division of family work, and contextual stressors.  Collectively, the papers utilize ecologically informed hypothesized conceptual models and within-groups approached to disentangle gendered associations via both longitudinal and cross-sectional designs.  In addition, the symposium demonstrates the application of state of the art analytical techniques (i.e., APIM, APIMeM, and 3-level MLM) for analyzing dyadic and mediated models using M-Plus to address necessarily complex research questions.