The Relationship Between Marriage and Psychological Well-being

By Hyoun K. Kim, P. Mckenry. 2002

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Together is better? Effects of relationship status and resources on young adults' well-being (2008, background): “For example, Kim and MacKenry (2002) showed that entering marriage decreases the level of depressive symptoms, especially if it is the first marriage.”
Trait emotional intelligence, conflict communication patterns, and relationship satisfaction (2008, background): “Married individuals reportedly experience greater psychological well-being (Kim & McKenry, 2002; Williams, 2003) and report less health problems (Wickrama, Conger, Lorenz, & Matthews, 1995; Williams & Umberson, 2004), than do unmarried individuals.”
Gender Differences in Marital and Life Satisfaction among Chinese Malaysians (2009, background): “More recent longitudinal studies of change in marital status indicted that although women tended to report greater depressive symptoms than men, gender did not have a strong interaction effect on the relation between marital change status and depression ( Kim and McKenry 2002 ).”
The Ambiguous Link between Marriage and Health: A Dynamic Reanalysis of Loss and Gain Effects (2017, background): “There has been debate as to whether the link between marriage and health is due to selection or protection, but sophisticated longitudinal analyses suggest that the protection effect is stronger than the selection effect (Johnson and Wu 2002; Kim and McKenry 2002; Waldron, Hughes, and Brooks 1996).”
Psychological wellbeing in a Turkish-Canadian sample (2005, positive): “These results are in line with the existing literature on the positive relationship between being married and psychological wellbeing (e.g., Kim & McKenry, 2002; Lamb et al., 2003).”
Mean-Level Change in Self-Esteem from Childhood through Adulthood: Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies (2010, background): “…15 N1 483, N2 113 2 1975 Miscellaneous Kaplan (1975) T1 12, T2 13, T3 14 640 2 1959 Rosenberg Keel (1997) T1 10.5, T2 11.5 80; 85 1, 0 N/A Rosenberg Kim (1999) T1 37.45, T2 43.26 3539; 257; 696; 262; 2 1950 Rosenberg 901; 134; 402; 116 Kohr (1974) T1 10, T2 12, T3 14 254; 272 0, 1 1959 Coopersmith…”
Romantic relationships and the physical and mental health of college students (2010, background): “However, given the pattern in previous marital research in which transitions into marriage predict increased health (e.g., Kim & McKenry, 2002), it is likely that the same temporal pattern unfolds in college dating relationships.”