Previous studies have focused on concomitants of depression and marital distress in order
to help explain the relationship between the two, suggesting that several variables, such as …

Previous studies have focused on the difficulties in psychosocial functioning in depressed
persons, underscoring the distress experienced by both spouses. We selected conflict …

Existing research documents that marital distress is strongly associated with depression;
however, less is known about specific features of relationship functioning that are associated …

Depressive symptoms are related to a host of negative individual and family outcomes;
therefore, it is important to establish risk factors for depressive symptoms to design …

The present study investigated dynamic, longitudinal associations between depressive
symptoms and marital processes. Two hundred and ninety‐six couples reported on marital …

In a two-year study of 190 newlywed couples, multi-level contemporaneous and time-lagged
models indicated that marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms covaried over time, but …

This study investigated factors related to the co-occurrence of marital distress and
depression using a community-based sample of 128 women. Marital distress and …

Past research has indicated that attributions play a role in the development and
maintenance of both depression and marital discord separately; however, few studies have …

Marital attributions—that is, causal inferences and explanations spouses make about their
partners' behavior—have been implicated as predictors of relationship functioning …

Given the emphasis on within-subject associations between depression and marital quality
in recent theory and practice, this study was undertaken with three goals: to examine within …