Marriage and non-psychotic emotional illness.
Study of social bonds suggest a causative role for their deficiency in the oetiology of non-psychotic emotional illness. The literature suggests that marital maladjustment is associated with certain neurotic and psychophysiological disorders; martial maladjustment is one type of deficient social bond which may influence symptom selection and perpetuation in non-psychotic emotional illness. Specific types of marital maladjustment, including lack of marital intimacy, are described as both vulnerability factors and perpetuating variables in specific non-psychotic emotional illnesses.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology