Analysis of Marital Expectations in African Immigrant and United States-Born Married Couples

Ngazimbi, Evadne E.; Daire, Andrew P.; Carlson, Ryan G.; Munyon, Matthew D.

doi:10.46743/2160-3715/2017.2211

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“…The affective life as a couple is reportedly one of the dimensions of social life in which the greatest cultural maintenance seems to exist. In this case, the persistence of marked differences between groups does not coincide with studies in the US that show high cultural accommodation, assimilation and hybridisation in immigrant couples (Ngazimbi et al, 2017).…”

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Love, relationships and couple happiness: A cross-cultural comparison among Spanish couples and Moroccan couples in Southern Spain

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Love and relationships are sociocultural constructions that, in recent times, have experienced great changes in terms of type of relationship, type of love and happiness of the couple. Few studies have analysed the love relationships immigrant population in Europe. This study aims to explore the differences and similarities in love styles between Spaniards and Moroccan immigrants, the country’s largest foreign population, and analyse the relationship between these styles and level of couple happiness. This cross-sectional study disseminated a survey to young adults between the ages of 18 and 40 in southern Spain. Of those who received the survey, 574 young adults responded, of which 182 were of Moroccan origin and 392 were Spanish. The results indicated that there are sociocultural and gender differences in the types of relationships young adults maintain and in the agents that facilitate romantic socialisation. The Spaniards describe less stable relationships, more influenced by several agents, while the Moroccans demonstrated more stability in relationships, more influenced by family and religion. In accordance with Sternberg love components, different types of love were recognised. Spanish women are the group most value love in their lives, rated higher in couple happiness, and gave special importance to intimacy (but not to commitment and passion). Moroccan women followed models of love closer to Sternberg's romantic love, giving importance to commitment, intimacy and passion. Spanish men were similar to Moroccan men regarding their type of love, although they were the only ones that included commitment as a predictor of happiness. This study reveals that the importance of an intersectional approach to analyse love and couples.

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“…One weakness concerns the models' theoretical nature (see Table 1) because they have been developed without prior empirical investigation. Additionally, these models do not fit in with other forms of the family organization resulting from demographic developments (e.g., increased age at first marriage and entry into parenting; increased divorce rate; and decreased fertility), and from ethnic and cultural variations (Carter & McGoldrick, 1995;Ngazimbi et al, 2017;Shange, 2010;Simões & Alberto, 2015Widmer & Gauthier, 2013). It is essential that the family evolutionary cycle models are adjusted to the cultural context of which the family system is a part.…”

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“Our Family’s Path:” Couples’ Perspectives on the Developmental Trajectories of Families in Urban Southern Angola

Simões

Alberto

2021

Journal of Black Psychology

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The aim of the present study was to explore and to understand how 36 urban Southern Angolan couples perceived their family’s development across the lifetime. The study sought to compare those results with three systemic approaches of family development, two Western and another indigenous. Through semi-structured interviews, the existence of two trajectories of family life, with similar life events, were identified. The life events of these two trajectories were organized in a different chronological order, based on the religious commitment of the individuals. The results showed discrepancies with the Western models on the composition of the household (i.e., big backyard families and families with a third element) as well as the type of events considered to be important milestones within the family trajectory (e.g., the inexistence of the empty nest). This study provides support for the indigenous framework proposed by Simões and Alberto (2015) and contributes to a better comprehension of the family functioning of the urban Southern Angolan families.

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“…Levels of total serum cholesterol and HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol were higher among AAs compared to BIs (Lancaster et al, 2006). A study of 214 Black men (138 BIs and 76 AAs) also showed that compared with AAs, waist circumference was lower among BIs; however, blood pressure and fasting glucose levels were higher among BIs (O'Connor et al, 2014). While health behaviors such as poor diet account for some of the disparities between BIs and AAs, factors in the environment such as family history, quality of neighborhoods, and exposure to stress may contribute to differences in health outcomes.…”

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“…Most BIs come from patriarchal cultures where deference to the husband is upheld. BIs also espouse the idea that marriage is an important milestone that improves social status (Ngazimbi, Daire, Carlson, & Munyon, 2017). These cultural views influence attitudes and perceptions toward marriage that are reflected in the current disparity in marital status among U.S. Blacks—48% of BIs are married compared to 28% of AAs (Pew Research Center, 2015).…”

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Health Disparities and the Heterogeneity of Blacks/African Americans in the United States: Why Should We Care?

Amuta-Jimenez

Jacobs

Smith

2019

Health Promotion Practice

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Each year, millions of dollars are spent on research and public health interventions targeted toward reducing health disparities primarily among the “Black/African Americans” community, yet the progress made lags far behind the amount of money and effort spent. We hypothesize that part of the problem is that sociocultural factors play a significant role in disease prevention. Most studies and programs aggregate “Black immigrants” (BIs) and “African Americans” (AAs) as “Black/African American.” This categorization assumes that the sociocultural determinants that influence BIs are the same as for AAs. BIs have health and mortality profiles that vary from AAs. This commentary aims to (1) introduce this idea in more depth and provide a brief scope of the problem, (2) provide scientific evidence of noteworthy differences between AAs and BIs in areas of sociodemographics, health behaviors, and health outcomes, (3) discuss implications of considering the Black/AA group as homogeneous and provide recommendations for disaggregation.

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Analysis of Marital Expectations in African Immigrant and United States-Born Married Couples

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Love, relationships and couple happiness: A cross-cultural comparison among Spanish couples and Moroccan couples in Southern Spain

Love, relationships and couple happiness: A cross-cultural comparison among Spanish couples and Moroccan couples in Southern Spain

“Our Family’s Path:” Couples’ Perspectives on the Developmental Trajectories of Families in Urban Southern Angola

Health Disparities and the Heterogeneity of Blacks/African Americans in the United States: Why Should We Care?

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