Schmaling K B, Jacobson N S
University of Washington.
J Abnorm Psychol. 1990 Aug;99(3):229-36. doi: 10.1037//0021-843x.99.3.229.
In this article, patterns of marital interaction as a function of depression and marital satisfaction are examined. The purpose of the study was to separate dysfunctional marital interaction patterns that were unique to depression from those that were associated with marital distress. The presence or absence of a depressed wife was crossed with level of marital satisfaction (distressed or nondistressed) to produce four groups of subject couples. Couples in which the wife was depressed exhibited more depressive behavior than did nondepressed couples, but only during discussion of a high conflict (as opposed to neutral) topic. Sex X Depression Level X Marital Satisfaction interactions were found for aggressive behavior: Depressed women in nondistressed relationships exhibited behavior that was characteristic of maritally distressed couples (high rates of aggression). In contrast, the husbands of these women exhibited behavior that one would expect in happily married couples (low rates of aggression). We failed to replicate previous findings that depressive behavior served a coercive function, although distressed couples, regardless of depression status, exhibited all the usual signs of negative dysfunctional interaction. In general, the findings suggested that marital distress rather than depression per se may be responsible for the dysfunctional interaction patterns frequently observed in depressed couples.
在本文中，研究了作为抑郁和婚姻满意度函数的婚姻互动模式。该研究的目的是将抑郁特有的功能失调婚姻互动模式与那些与婚姻困扰相关的模式区分开来。妻子是否抑郁与婚姻满意度水平（困扰或非困扰）交叉，产生了四组受试夫妻。妻子抑郁的夫妻比未抑郁的夫妻表现出更多的抑郁行为，但仅在讨论高度冲突（而非中性）话题时如此。对于攻击性行为，发现了性别×抑郁水平×婚姻满意度的交互作用：处于非困扰关系中的抑郁女性表现出婚姻困扰夫妻的典型行为（高攻击率）。相比之下，这些女性的丈夫表现出人们在幸福婚姻夫妻中预期的行为（低攻击率）。我们未能重复先前关于抑郁行为具有强制功能的研究结果，尽管困扰夫妻，无论抑郁状况如何，都表现出所有常见的负面功能失调互动迹象。总体而言，研究结果表明，婚姻困扰而非抑郁本身可能是抑郁夫妻中经常观察到的功能失调互动模式的原因。
