Psychiatric morbidity and subsequent divorce: a couple-level register-based study in Finland | Zendy

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Psychiatric morbidity and subsequent divorce: a couple-level register-based study in Finland

Author(s) -

Niina MetsäSimola,

Pekka Martikainen,

Christiaan Monden

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863

H-Index - 121

eISSN - 1433-9285

pISSN - 0933-7954

DOI - 10.1007/s00127-018-1521-2

Subject(s) - spouse , psychiatry , mental health , medicine , marital status , incidence (geometry) , psychiatric hospital , medical prescription , epidemiology , risk factor , demography , psychology , population , environmental health , pharmacology , physics , sociology , anthropology , optics

Studies that assess the role of mental health for the risk of divorce are scarce and mostly rely on individual-level data, although divorce is a couple-level phenomenon. Using data on couples, we examine the effects of both spouses' psychiatric morbidity on the risk of divorce, and whether socio-demographic factors affect these associations.

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