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| Change in marital dissatisfaction, health and depression in older married couples | | Author(s) | Baila Miller, Aloen L Townsend, Karen J Ishler |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 10 no 1, Spring 2004 |
| Pages | pp 65-77 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Health [elderly] ; Married couples ; Attitude ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Does depressive symptomatology, marital dissatisfaction and physical health change over time; and are changes in marital dissatisfaction and physical health associated with changes in counts of somatic and mood symptoms of depression? In addition, do these patterns of change differ between husbands and wives? A sample of 103 married husbands and wives were interviewed in 1986 and 1989 as part of the Americans Changing Lives Survey (ACL). Using paired t-tests, the authors found that there is relatively little change in depressive symptomatology, marital dissatisfaction or health. Regression analysis revealed that predictors of change were different for mood versus somatic symptoms and for wives and husbands. The results suggest that it is important to distinguish mood and somatic symptoms when assessing changes in depressive symptomatology. RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040921206 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CC: SM: DP: 3J: 7T |
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