ABSTRACT
One major strength of the present literature review concerning identity and interethnic marriage in the United States is a broad theoretical orientation that allowed people to consider a wide range of social-psychological constructs in detail. Of course, all of the hypothesized effects may be complicated by the presence of racial, religious, and national aspects of ethnic attitudes and ethnic behavior. In addition to gender-role attitudes, gender-role compliance—which Spence and colleagues viewed as overtly behavioral in nature—might be interpreted more accurately as an index of role enactment than as an indicator of gender identity. As attachment theorists develop a variety of continuous, multidimensional measures of adult attachment styles/orientations, relationship scientists increasingly will be in a position to examine the mediating effects of attachment styles/orientations as interpersonal attitudes within the context of interethnic marriage. It is possible that any quantitative link between ethnic identity and interdependence-related variables in interethnic marriage will be more indirect than one had anticipated.
