Birtchnell J, Kennard J
Br J Psychiatry. 1983 Feb;142:193-8. doi: 10.1192/bjp.142.2.193.
Two female psychiatric patient samples were examined--240 women, aged 20 or over, from North East Scotland; and 44, aged 40 to 49, from Chichester, West Sussex. There was also a Chichester community sample of 230 women of similar age-range. The N.E. Scotland psychiatric patients with poor marriages broke down significantly earlier, and the delay between marriage and first breakdown was significantly shorter. This group also tended to have a neurotic rather than an endogenous type of depression. The poor marriages of the Chichester psychiatric patients were, in the main, similar to those of the Chichester non-patients, but the patients demonstrated significantly more disturbance of sexual relationships, and their in-laws were significantly more disapproving.
对两组女性精神病患者样本进行了检查——一组是来自苏格兰东北部的240名年龄在20岁及以上的女性；另一组是来自西苏塞克斯郡奇切斯特的44名年龄在40至49岁之间的女性。此外，还有一个来自奇切斯特的、年龄范围相似的230名女性的社区样本。苏格兰东北部婚姻不幸的精神病患者病情显著更早出现恶化，而且从结婚到首次病情恶化的间隔时间明显更短。这组患者还倾向于患有神经质性而非内源性抑郁症。奇切斯特精神病患者不幸的婚姻状况在很大程度上与奇切斯特非患者的婚姻状况相似，但患者在性关系方面的困扰明显更多，而且他们的姻亲明显更不赞同他们的婚姻。
