Citation

Morgan PC, Dell'Isola R, Stanfield MH, Durtschi JA. J. Couple Relationsh. Ther. 2021; 20(2): 188-209.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15332691.2020.1816520

PMID

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Abstract

Depression is a common presenting problem for couples and family therapy, but it is unclear at what degree close relationships are impaired when testing depression classes. Using a family systems framework, we used 847 married men and 1,690 married women from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2016 data. Latent class analyses revealed four classes of married women's depression (high-depression, high-suicide; high-depression, low-suicide; mixed-depression, high-suicide; and mixed-depression, low-suicide classes) and two classes of married men's depression (high-depression, moderate-suicide; and moderate-depression, lower-suicide classes). We found that the more severe depression classes were linked with only moderate impairment of close relationships. © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Language: en

Keywords

gender differences; Depression; marriage; latent class analysis