The development of supportive and committed romantic relationships during emerging adulthood forecasts relationship quality later in adulthood. Many emerging adult African American men are exposed to challenging socioeconomic environments that are known to undermine romantic relationships. Studies of African American men's romantic relationship quality and its antecedents during this developmental period are scarce. The present study investigates longitudinal trajectories of romantic relationship quality among African American emerging adult men and then tests a model linking them to adverse childhood experiences, socioeconomic instability, community disadvantage, and defensive relational schemas. The analytic sample included 331 African American men who reported having a romantic partner, observed during three waves of data collection from ages 19 to age 26. Using men's reports of romantic relationship support, conflict, and dyadic trust, parallel growth mixture modeling was conducted to identify romantic relationship trajectory profiles. We identified three romantic relationship trajectory profiles: Normative, Uncertain, and Conflictual. Structural equation analyses revealed that adverse childhood experiences were associated positively with contemporaneous contextual risk factors (i.e., socioeconomic instability and community disadvantage), which in turn, were associated significantly with membership in Uncertain and Conflictual trajectories through defensive relational schemas. The present study reveals heterogeneous romantic relationships among African American emerging adult men. Findings support the conjoint influences of early adversity and contemporaneous stressors as robust antecedents of African American men's romantic relationship behaviors over time. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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年轻非洲裔美国男性的浪漫关系轨迹：不利生活环境的影响。


成年初期支持性和忠诚的浪漫关系的发展预示着成年后期的关系质量。许多新兴成年非洲裔美国男性面临着充满挑战的社会经济环境，而这些环境会破坏浪漫关系。关于这一发展时期非裔美国男性的浪漫关系质量及其前因的研究很少。本研究调查了非洲裔美国新兴成年男性浪漫关系质量的纵向轨迹，然后测试了一个将他们与不良童年经历、社会经济不稳定、社区劣势和防御性关系模式联系起来的模型。分析样本包括 331 名自称有浪漫伴侣的非裔美国男性，在从 19 岁到 26 岁的三波数据收集过程中进行观察。利用男性对浪漫关系支持、冲突和二元信任的报告，进行平行增长混合模型识别浪漫关系轨迹概况。我们确定了三种浪漫关系轨迹：规范型、不确定型和冲突型。结构方程分析显示，不良的童年经历与同时期的背景风险因素（即社会经济不稳定和社区劣势）呈正相关，而这些风险因素反过来又与通过防御性关系模式进入不确定和冲突轨迹的成员显着相关。本研究揭示了非裔美国新兴成年男性之间异质的浪漫关系。研究结果支持早期逆境和同时期压力源的共同影响，作为非裔美国男性随着时间的推移浪漫关系行为的强有力的前因。 （PsycINFO 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。