Our article on Black identity, depressive symptomology, and marital satisfaction recently was talked about on pop-science news website PsyPost.
My co-author August really comes across clearly in describing the findings. I wish they’d take it the step further to point out how strongly this argues a need for more research along these lines. As I alluded to in the earlier post, and as we talk about in the paper, a lot of the analyses we ran are really exploratory–they’re first takes at trying to capture the complexity of the intersections of different forces. The models exist to understand this more completely, but finding the data is a much taller order.
You can find it online: “New study highlights important links between depressive symptoms, Black identity and marital satisfaction in African-American couples” by Eric Dolan.