The relationships between health and marital status and marital satisfaction were investigated with data from a three-generation study of Mexican Americans. It was concluded that marriage and good health appear to have more protective influences on younger Mexican Americans, though the possibility was acknowledged that generational differences may…

Used data from 1979 National Chicano Survey to examine effects of employment and marital relations on mental health of Mexican-American women. Found that marital satisfaction and husband's help with housework both helped to decrease women's depression levels. Women's employment status was not related to depression. When examining employed women…

Compared childrearing practices used by Mexican-American parents of first-, second-, and third-generation adolescents. Findings from 317 parents revealed significant generational differences in childrearing styles. Parents of first- and second-generation adolescents reported more responsibility-oriented childrearing style, whereas parents of…

Examined relationship of marital strain, coping, and depression in 550 Mexican-American women. Found marital strain and coping factors to be intercorrelated and to covary with depressive symptoms. Acculturation level also covaried with some marital strain and coping factors but was not related to depression. (Author/NB)

Explored the appropriateness of using the Dyadic Adjustment Scale's norming criteria to assess level of marital adjustment among a subgroup of Mexican Americans (N=39) and identified intragroup response variability. Results indicated significant differences in scores and intragroup differences between husbands and wives and United States born and…

Used event histories constructed from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate roles of structural (pool of marriageable men) and cultural (familism) factors in marriage transitions of 3,853 Mexican American, African American, and Anglo-American women. Found that similarities were outweighed by differences in marriage process across…

Compared older Mexican Americans who are members of three-generation families in the San Antonio area with other elderly on a number of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Found that members were more fertile, had married and had children at a younger age, and were of slightly lower socioeconomic status. (JAC)

Tested social psychological model of fertility-related intentions in 708 Mexican-American women. Results indicated that attitudes and normative beliefs of significant others, weighted by motivation to comply with those reference groups, combined to explain significant proportion of variance in fertility-related intentions of Mexican-American…

Used historical and interview data to examine the interethnic families formed after 1915 in rural California by immigrant men from India and their Hispanic spouses. Describes childrearing and family life and analyzes the male and female networks linking these families to each other and to the wider society. (JAC)

This study examines the relationship between the gender of children already born and the likelihood of having subsequent children. Results indicate couples with previous children of the same gender are consistently more likely to bear an additional child. This relationship is more pronounced among Anglos than Mexican Americans. (Author)

Reports on the development of the Multidimensional Assessment of Interparental Conflict Scale (MAIC), with parallel forms for parents and adolescents. The MAIC is the first instrument to obtain both parent and adolescent reports of multiple dimensions of interparental conflict, to include adolescent reports of parental conflict behavior, and to be…

Examined cohesion and adaptability as two dimensions of family functioning in 294 Anglo- and Mexican-American parents of school-age children. Revealed no significant differences in mean scores or distributions between ethnic groups for cohesion or adaptability, even when acculturation was controlled. (Author/NB)

The presence or absence of differences between husbands and wives in patterns of relationship between economic variables and desired family size may indicate: (a) whether conjugal roles condition the effects of economic factors on the demand for children; and (b) the extent to which assumptions in economic models of fertility are supported.…

This investigation analyzes self-report perceptions of relative spousal dominance in decision-making and conflict resolution for an inner city neighborhood sample of 137 marriages representing three ethnic groups. (Author)

Examines the role of confidant support in moderating depressive symptoms among low-income, Mexican immigrant women in discrete marital statuses. Confidant support doubled the explained variance when added to an equation containing a best set of known demographic predictors of depression. (Author/ABB)