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Not much is known about how the multiplicative effects of social position affect self-appraised health and psychological well-being. The growing prevalence of interracial relationships presses the need to understand how partner race might be associated with racial disparities in health among romantically involved people. Stress Process Theory suggests that differences in social positions (e.g., race, gender) contribute to differential exposure to stressors related to disparities in well-being. In this paper, data from Waves 3 & 4 of the Add Health dataset were used to examine the moderating effects of gender and partner race on depressive symptomatology and self-rated health of White, Black, and Hispanic young adults. Findings reveal that having a Black partner is associated with greater depressive symptomatology. Relative to White males partnered with White females however, regardless of race, women partnered …