title: The etiology of nonpsychotic emotional illness.
abstract: Two hundred and fifty couples in the general population completed self-report questionnaires which measured life events, personality, marital intimacy, and symptoms of nonpsychotic emotional illness. Path analysis was utilized to explain the development of symptoms of nonpsychotic emotional illness. Personality traits of neuroticism and extroversion explained most of the variance of symptoms of nonpsychotic emotional illness. Life events played a much smaller but significant role and marital intimacy was a nonsignificant factor. The data support a proneness model for the etiology of nonpsychotic emotional illness.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital, London, Ontario.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Waring
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Patton
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Wister
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010556:Personality Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support