Abstract
Studies of romantic relationships among emerging adult African-American men have the potential to inform downstream challenges observed in marriage and relationship development among African-Americans. To date, however, most research on African-American men has focused narrowly on sexual risk behavior, to the exclusion of normative relationship behavior. Accordingly, we focused on understanding heterogeneity in emerging adult African-American men’s romantic relationships. We conducted a latent profile analysis with 354 men participating in the African-American Men’s Project who had a main female romantic partner. To understand the significance of the resulting profiles, we examined the correlates of each profile in the areas of sociodemographics, adverse childhood experiences, masculinity attitudes, and health risk behaviors. Results revealed three romantic relationship groups: Supportive, Uncommitted, and Volatile. Differences were detected among the groups in education, fertility with partners, adverse childhood experiences, masculinity attitudes, substance abuse, and sexual concurrency.
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