Gender Differences in Language Acculturation Predict Marital Satisfaction: A Dyadic Analysis of Russian-Speaking Immigrant Couples in the United States
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Abstract
Immigration is a major life event that can create marital distress in couples who migrate together (Min, 2001 ). One instigator of this distress is differences in the rates of acculturation between husbands and wives (Chun and Akutsu, 2003 ; Darvishpour, 2002). Previous qualitative research (Ben-David and Lavee 1994) found that amongst Russian immigrant couples in Israel, marital discord resulted when wives acculturated faster to the host culture than their husbands. Building on this with a quantitative approach, we assessed a sample of Russian-speaking immigrants in the United States of America to examine whether gender differences in acculturation patterns predicted marital satisfaction. Fifty immigrant couples completed the Language, Identity and Behavior Acculturation Scale (Birman and Trickett, 2001) and the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Busby, Christensen, Crane, and Larson , 1995) as an indicator of marital satisfaction. Multilevel modeling revealed that husbands and wives were less satisfied in their marriages when husbands scored low on American language acculturation and wives scored higher. Differences in the other dimensions of acculturation (American and Russian identity and behavior) did not significantly predict marital satisfaction. To interpret these findings, we suggest that language acculturation is a pathway to economic success, and when women acculturate faster it violates traditional economic gender roles. Implications for therapists and community agencies who support immigrant families during this difficult transition are discussed.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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