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| Hostile, Anti-Social Spouse: Male Female Asymmetry |
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| Tuesday, 23 February 2010 10:00 | |||
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Columbia, MO, USA. In the United States, nearly 10 percent of the population suffers from a depressive disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). While the causes vary, marital hostility is a known contributing factor. A new study extends this baseline while showing a significant difference in the dynamics of depression within a marital relationship. Anti-social behaviors are those that are self-centered, defiant or show a lack of constraint; hostile behaviors are those that are angry, critical or rejecting. To measure hostile and anti-social behaviors, researchers watched and coded twenty-minute videos of couples interacting in their homes. Symptoms of depression were self-reported by those in the study. Over time, anti-social and hostile behaviors by husbands increased their wives’ symptoms of depression, but the contrary was not true: husbands were far less prone to depression when dealing with similar behavior from their wives. The researchers found no significant relationship between wives’ hostile behavior and husbands’ depression, unless significant life events, such as a death in the family or a job loss, were present. Additionally, warm, positive behavior from husbands lessened the negative impact of their hostile behavior.
Christine Proulx is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies in at the University of Missouri. “In the study, husbands’ marital hostility was significantly related to increases in wives’ symptoms of depression,” Proulx said. “The more hostile and anti-social behavior exhibited by husbands, the more depressed their wives were after three years. These findings suggest that husbands’ treatment of their wives significantly impacts their psychological well-being and that hostile behavior has a lasting effect on couples that continues throughout their marriages.” “It’s critical that professionals ask people experiencing depression about their close relationships and recognize that their spouse’s behavior influences how they feel about life and themselves, especially among women,” Proulx said. “It is important to intervene at the couple level and make spouses aware that how they act toward each other has a long-term effect on their emotional and physical well-being.” CitationModerators of the Link between Marital Hostility and Change in Spouses’ Depressive Symptoms. Christine M. Proulx, Cheryl Buehler and Heather Helms. Journal of Family Psychology 2009; 23(4): 540-550.
Abstract This study examined the moderating roles of marital warmth and recent life events in the association between observed marital hostility and changes in spouses’ depressive symptoms over 3 years. Using the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM), structural equation models (N = 416 couples) suggested that husbands’ marital hostility was significantly related to increases in wives’ depressive symptoms. Moderator analyses showed that husbands’ warmth and wives’ warmth moderate the association between marital hostility and change in wives’ depressive symptoms. The association between husbands’ hostility and increases in wives’ depressive symptoms was stronger under conditions of lower levels of husbands’ warmth than under conditions of higher levels of husbands’ warmth. This same pattern was found for wives’ warmth. Regarding life events, the association between wives’ hostility and increases in husbands’ depressive symptoms was stronger for couples with more recent life events than for couples with fewer recent life events. Practical and empirical implications are discussed.
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