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The British Journal of Psychiatry 158: 648-657 (1991)
© 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Negative modes of relating, marital quality and depression

J Birtchnell
MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London.

Young married couples, with or without a depressed wife, were divided into three groups according to marital quality. Negative modes of relating were assessed by self-rating and partner-rating questionnaires. The intercorrelation of scores for different modes of relating was higher on partner-rating than on self-rating scales. There was a significant gradient of mean negative-relating scores across the three levels of marital quality. The partner-ratings of depressives and their husbands were higher on all negative-relating scales than those of non-depressed women and their husbands. The self-ratings of the depressives corresponded with these negative ratings while those of their husbands did not. The partner-rating scores differentiated between the depressives with poor marriages and those with better marriages.




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