Why are married women more prone to depression?
The effect of marital status on depression is neither consistent nor sizable, and the cited differential effect between the sexes is typically based on inequivalent comparisons (e.g., “women in UNHAPPY marriages” vs. “married” men). Even given reliable and valid results, potential explanations would be numerous, varied, and mediated by a multitude of other factors. Supposing consistency in similar measures, important variables to consider would be “perceived level of control” and “spousal encouragement of obtaining medical services.” i apologize if approaching the question from a scientific perspective sucks out any of the fun of speculation. June 12: Ha! – you are right, Violet. I do sound like a pompous snit! I was ticked off to a tee b/c our library’s New & Improved search engine cleverly parries all my attempts to access a journal, research a subject, find an author, or even direct me to an article when I enter complete reference with ribbons and bows. That supercilious-sounding la
I rhink a lor of married women find themselves in a rut more easily. Get up, get kids off to school, do laundry clean something, go to grocery store, pick up kids at bus stop, make dinner etc. That would make me depressed. Then again it could be Get up, screw hubby, send him to work, screw gardener etc. Who knows maybe the day in and day out get to them more and single women have more chance of finding somethign different at the end of the day. I guess the irony is that most of the single women want to be the married women…
