NOTES
The authors would like to thank Ellen Berscheid, David Lykken, Matt McGue, and Yu-Wen Ying for their comments on an earlier version of this chapter.
1. For more information about the Chinese American and European American intraethnic couples, see Tsai and Levenson (1997).
2. Our married sample comprised six native-born Japanese American women married to European American men; two Korean or Korean Chinese women married to European American men; one Korean American woman married to an African American male; and one Chinese American woman married to a European American male. When quoting individuals from this sample, we will refer to their ethnicity as “Asian American” in order to maintain confidentiality.