Divorce Likelihood Among Anglos and Mexican Americans

Bibliographic Data

ID19464973
AuthorsJames Alan Neff (The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center), Kathleen R Gilbert, Kathleen Gilbert (0000-0002-3087-1670, Indiana University Bloomington), Sue Keir Hoppe (The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center)
Year1991
Volume15
Issue1-2
Pages75-98
Publication date1991-10-19
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Divorce & Remarriage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1050-2556 • E-ISSN: 1540-4811
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j087v15n01_06
OpenAlexW1970447430
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

In this paper, we examine ethnic differences in divorce likelihood for a sample of 900 divorce petitions filed in San Antonio, Texas, during 1985. The present study explores ethnic differences in the nature of the divorce process and examines the extent to which observed ethnic differences in divorce likelihood are accounted for by differences between groups in dimensions such as socioeconomic status, marital history, and nature of complaints. Divorce likelihood is viewed from the perspective of Levinger's (1965) exchange model of marital instability, as recently applied to the phenomenon of divorce petition withdrawal by Kitson et al. (1983). Observed differences between Spanish surname and non-Spanish surname petitions in divorce likelihood and divorce delay are largely explained by controls for background and exchange model variables. Significant interaction effects with ethnicity suggest the complexity of the divorce process

Ethnic group · Marital status · Political science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies