Early epidemiological research on family status and mental health produced three “social
facts”: 1. Marriage is beneficial to mental health. 2. Marriage benefits the mental health of�…

Williams, Frech, and Carlson examine the evidence for an effect of marital status on mental
health, with a particular focus on the factors that identify who benefits from marriage, who�…

Three decades ago, Gove introduced his sex-role theory of mental illness, which attributes
women's higher rates of psychological distress to their roles in society. Central to his�…

Some of the earliest and most well-known sociological studies showed that marriage was
beneficial to mental health, marriage benefited the mental health of men more than women�…

Does marriage improve the mental health of men at the expense of women? The author
investigates whether this widespread belief is supported by data from the 1997 National�…

Marriage is a social institution and its effects on mental health vary across societies. In
societies which emphasize marriage, being married is related to lower depression, lower�…

This study expands the marital status and mental health literature by examining several
dimensions of marital trajectories, including the number and type of prior marital losses and�…

Much of the research on the relationship between marital status and mental health has only
looked at married versus" nonmarried" groups. This research examines differences among�…

Previous research (cf. Gove) has suggested that the higher rates of mental illness among
females may be due to the greater stress associated with the marital role for women in our�…

Although a large number of studies show a correlation between marital status and mental
health, the relative magnitude of the relationship, as compared to the strength of the�…