The Costs of Racism for Marriage: How Racial Discrimination Hurts, and Ethnic Identity Protects, Newlywed Marriages Among Latinos

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 454-465

  Trail, Thomas E ^a   Goff, Phillip Atiba ^a   Bradbury, Thomas N ^a   Karney, Benjamin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

discrimination; marital satisfaction; marriage; racial identity; verbal aggression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MARRIAGE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREJUDICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES;

EID: 84858644009     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167211429450     Document Type: Article

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