Marital Satisfaction and Depression: Different Causal Relationships for Men and Women?
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 8 (5) , 351-356
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1997.tb00424.x
Abstract
A sample of 150 recently married couples provided data egarding marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms Approximatey 18 months later, 116 of these couples provided complete information on marital satisfaction and depression once again The data were examined using three sets of causal models, which yielded converging results For men, causal paths emerged from depression to marital satisfaction, whereas for women causal paths were from satisfaction to depression The results are discussed in relation to the marital discord model of depressionThis publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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