The present study was designed to examine the complex bidirectional associations between relationship quality and depressive symptoms among African American couples. Informed by the Marital Discord Model, particular attention was devoted to understanding the unique associations of positive and negative dimensions of relationship functioning with depressive symptoms over time, the time frames over which these effects occur, and the model's applicability for African American couples. One hundred seventy-four African American couples (N = 348 individuals) provided information on depressive symptoms, relationship satisfaction, ineffective arguing, and partner support four times over a 25-month period. Hypotheses were tested using Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models to separate between- and within-person effects. Results indicated that between-person associations with depressive symptoms were significant for relationship satisfaction (negative association) and ineffective arguing (positive association), but not partner support. Within-person concurrent effects were also significant with depressive symptoms and each of the relationship processes under investigation. Within-person 8-month lagged effects were only significant for partner support and depressive symptoms (negative association); these effects were significant in both directions, but stronger from support to depressive symptoms than from depressive symptoms to support. Study findings provide increased conceptual and analytic precision for understanding the association between couples' relationship quality and African Americans' mental health, including malleable relationship factors that can be targeted in family-focused interventions to promote individual and couple well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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非裔美国人的关系质量和抑郁症状：婚姻不和谐模型的纵向调查。


本研究旨在研究非裔美国夫妇的关系质量与抑郁症状之间复杂的双向关联。根据婚姻不和谐模型，我们特别关注随着时间的推移，理解关系的积极和消极维度与抑郁症状之间的独特关联、这些影响发生的时间范围，以及该模型对非裔美国夫妇的适用性。 174 对非裔美国夫妇（N = 348 人）在 25 个月内四次提供了有关抑郁症状、关系满意度、无效争论和伴侣支持的信息。使用随机截取交叉滞后面板模型来测试假设，以区分人与人之间的影响。结果表明，抑郁症状的人与人之间的关联对于关系满意度（负关联）和无效争论（正关联）有显着影响，但对于伴侣支持则没有显着影响。人体内的并发效应对于抑郁症状和正在调查的每个关系过程也很显着。人体内 8 个月的滞后效应仅对伴侣支持和抑郁症状显着（负相关）；这些影响在两个方向上都很显着，但从支持到抑郁症状的影响比从抑郁症状到支持的影响更强。研究结果为理解夫妻关系质量与非裔美国人心理健康之间的关系提供了更高的概念和分析精度，包括可以在以家庭为中心的干预措施中针对的可塑关系因素，以促进个人和夫妻的福祉。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。