Marital relationship and depressive symptomatology in women: Clinical implications from a Gender perspective

Abstract

This article presents a research conducted with a Spanish sample of married women with children (divided into a community group and a clinical group of depressed patients). The goal of the research was to evaluate in the global sample and in both groups the association between marital intimacy and several aspects of marital power, on one hand, with the level of marital adjustment and depressive symptomatology. Several psychosocial variables usually associated with depressive symptomatology were also assessed. The results establish a strong and significant association between the level of intimacy and the different aspects of marital power (educational and economic resources, communication strategies, the division of tasks and decision making, and the degree of equity and equality) with the depressive symptomatology of women. Clinical implications for individual or couples psychotherapy are drawn from these results.

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Moreno Fernández, A., Rodríguez Vega, B., Carrasco Galán, M.J. & Sánchez Hernández, J.J. (2009). Relación de pareja y sintomatología depresiva de la mujer: implicaciones clínicas desde una perspectiva de género. Apuntes de Psicología, 27, 489-506.