Recent research has identified significant differences in how satisfaction in newlywed relationships progress, with the majority of spouses reporting relatively high marital satisfaction. However, most studies have focused on white, middle class, childless couples, and it is not clear whether these findings hold for socioeconomically disadvantaged couples (those with low educational attainment or income). Further, previous work has largely ignored differences between spouses within the same marriage and the circumstances under which interpersonal processes between spouses are influential to prospective marital satisfaction. Using dyadic growth-mixture modeling and three waves of data from 530 newlywed couples in the Supporting Healthy Marriages study, we simultaneously modeled husbands’ and wives’ marital satisfaction and identified two classes of couples, labeled the Relatively satisfied class and Husbands’ moderate intercept, wives’ low, and increasing satisfaction class. Husbands consistently reported better marital satisfaction than their wives regardless of class membership. Wives’ perceptions of interpersonal processes during experiences of financial stress predicted class membership. Dissolution rates also differed between classes. We conclude by providing practical implications for working with socioeconomically disadvantaged families.

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了解社会经济弱势夫妇婚姻的早期阶段

最近的研究发现，在新婚关系的满意度进展方面存在显着差异，大多数配偶报告的婚姻满意度相对较高。然而，大多数研究都集中在白人、中产阶级、没有孩子的夫妇身上，尚不清楚这些研究结果是否适用于社会经济处于不利地位的夫妇（那些受教育程度或收入低的夫妇）。此外，以前的工作在很大程度上忽略了同一婚姻中配偶之间的差异以及配偶之间的人际交往过程对未来婚姻满意度有影响的情况。在支持健康婚姻研究中，使用二元增长混合模型和来自 530 对新婚夫妇的三波数据，我们同时对丈夫和妻子的婚姻满意度进行建模，并确定了两个类别的夫妻，分别标记为相对满意类别和丈夫中等截距、妻子低和增加满意度类别。无论阶级成员如何，丈夫的婚姻满意度始终高于妻子。妻子在财务压力经历期间对人际交往过程的看法预测了阶级成员身份。不同班级的解散率也不同。最后，我们提供了与社会经济弱势家庭合作的实际意义。妻子在财务压力经历期间对人际交往过程的看法预测了阶级成员身份。不同班级的解散率也不同。最后，我们提供了与社会经济弱势家庭合作的实际意义。妻子在财务压力经历期间对人际交往过程的看法预测了阶级成员身份。不同班级的解散率也不同。最后，我们提供了与社会经济弱势家庭合作的实际意义。