C. Negy et Dk. Snyder, ETHNICITY AND ACCULTURATION - ASSESSING MEXICAN-AMERICAN COUPLES RELATIONSHIPS USING THE MARITAL SATISFACTION INVENTORY - REVISED, Psychological assessment, 9(4), 1997, pp. 414-421
This study compared the marriages of 75 Mexican American and 66 non-Hi
spanic White American couples sampled from the same geographic region
of the southwestern U.S., using the Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Rev
ised (MSI-R). Analyses of internal consistency and scales' intercorrel
ations provided partial support for the structural equivalence of MSI-
R scales across both samples. Multivariate analyses indicated modestly
higher levels of relationship distress among the Mexican American cou
ples. although group differences dissolved after controlling for demog
raphic variables other than ethnicity. Ratings of higher acculturation
among Mexican American couples were modestly related to higher levels
of marital distress for wives but unrelated to relationship satisfact
ion for husbands. Implications of findings for the study of Mexican Am
erican marriages and interventions with clinically distressed couples
are discussed.