 [分享]Fell Blue, Say “I Do” as Weddings Boost Mood
Fell Blue, Say “I Do” as Weddings Boost Mood Lonely? Feeling low? Try taking a walk—down the aisle. Getting married enhances mental health, especially if you’re depressed, according to a new U.S. study. “We actually found the opposite of what we expected,” said Adrianne Frech, a PhD sociology student at Ohio State University who conducted the study with Kristi Williams, an assistant professor of sociology. They expected to find that one spouse’s depression weighed too much on the marriage, but “just mattering to someone else can help alleviate symptoms of depression,” Frech said. The researchers used a 3,066 person sample and measured symptoms of depression—such as an inability to sleep, or persistent sadness—in the same people both before and after their first marriage. They found that depressed people experienced a much more extreme decrease in the incidence of those symptoms after marriage. “Depressed people may be just especially in need of the intimacy, the emotional closeness and the social support that marriage can provide.” Williams said. On the other hand, if you’re not depressed, marriage could have the opposite effect. People who were happy before getting married and end up in a marriage plagued by distance or conflict—qualities associated with a depressed spouse—might be better off single. “It seems right to say that people who are not depressed are at risk, that if they marry a depressed person this could be a bad deal for them,” Frech said.
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