Articles: PDF OnlyThe Relationship between Depression and Marital Maladjustment A Descriptive StudyCROWTHER, JANIS H. Ph.D.1 Author Information 1Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease: April 1985 - Volume 173 - Issue 4 - p 227-231 Buy Abstract Measures of depression and marital adjustment were completed by patients hospitalized on an inpatient psychiatric unit and their spouses. Therapists also provided ratings of the patients' depression and couples' marital adjustment. Results indicated a significant negative correlation between patient self-reports of depression and marital adjustment, which was supported by the correlation between therapist ratings. These results demonstrate generalization of the previously established depression-marital maladjustment relationship from outpatients to inpatients. Analyses of sex differences indicated that, although there were no differences between depressed men and women in the severity of the depression, depressed men rated their marriages as significantly better adjusted than depressed women. Clinical implications of these findings with respect to depression and marital maladjustment are discussed. © Williams & Wilkins 1985. All Rights Reserved.
