Negative modes of relating, marital quality and depression.
Young married couples, with or without a depressed wife, were divided into three groups according to marital quality. Negative modes of relating were assessed by self-rating and partner-rating questionnaires. The intercorrelation of scores for different modes of relating was higher on partner-rating than on self-rating scales. There was a significant gradient of mean negative-relating scores across the three levels of marital quality. The partner-ratings of depressives and their husbands were higher on all negative-relating scales than those of non-depressed women and their husbands. The self-ratings of the depressives corresponded with these negative ratings while those of their husbands did not. The partner-rating scores differentiated between the depressives with poor marriages and those with better marriages.
Birtchnell
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MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London.
D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010555:Personality Inventory