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Marriage as a risk factor for internalizing disorders: clarifying scope and specificity.

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  • Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Relationship Science

Background:

  • Marital discord is linked to depression and anxiety.
  • Understanding of marriage's role in internalizing symptoms lacks specificity.
  • Unclear if marital relationship impacts broad internalizing symptoms or specific diagnoses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Clarify if marital discord affects broad internalizing symptoms or specific diagnoses.
  • Determine if global dissatisfaction or specific relationship processes drive internalizing symptoms.
  • Develop a framework for understanding marriage's role in internalizing symptom development.

Main Methods:

  • Collected questionnaire and interview data from 102 couples.
  • Data collected 5 times over the first 7 years of marriage.

Main Results:

  • Marital discord during the transition to marriage associated with broad internalizing symptoms in husbands, not wives.
  • Global marital dissatisfaction and power imbalance increased husbands' risk for symptoms.
  • Low emotional intimacy increased wives' risk for symptoms.

Conclusions:

  • Intimate relationship processes are crucial in etiological models of depression and anxiety.
  • Identify specific clinical targets for interventions preventing internalizing disorders.