A multinational study of mental disorders, marriage, and divorce.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Estimate predictive associations of mental disorders with marriage and divorce in a cross-national sample.

Method

Population surveys of mental disorders included assessment of age at first marriage in 19 countries (n = 46,128) and age at first divorce in a subset of 12 countries (n = 30,729). Associations between mental disorders and subsequent marriage and divorce were estimated in discrete time survival models.

Results

Fourteen of 18 premarital mental disorders are associated with lower likelihood of ever marrying (odds ratios ranging from 0.6 to 0.9), but these associations vary across ages of marriage. Associations between premarital mental disorders and marriage are generally null for early marriage (age 17 or younger), but negative associations come to

SUBMITTER: Breslau J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4011132 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature