A long tradition of research and theory on gender, marriage, and mental health suggests that
marital status is more important to men's psychological well-being than women's while�…

Using national survey data, this article examines gender differences in the relationships of
marital status and of marital quality to psychosocial well-being in order to test hypotheses�…

Do unmarried individuals experience more emotional and health problems than their
married counterparts? According to more than 130 empirical studies on a number of well�…

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�…

The positive link between marriage and physical and psychological well-being is well
established, but whether marriage is associated with social well-being is not. Using�…

Despite the assumption that marriage enhances psychological well-being, little evidence
exists that the social role of marriage, rather than the characteristics of individuals who get�…

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�…

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�…

Past research has consistently documented the positive relationship between a transition to
marriage and psychological well-being. In this study, we separate the depressed from the�…

This study examined the relationship between marriage and psychological well-being using
a sample from the National Survey of Families and Households panel data. Eight different�…