Cohabitation and mental health: Is psychotropic medication use more common in cohabitation than marriage?

ABSTRACT: Marriage is associated with better mental health. While research on the mental health of cohabiting individuals has increased in recent years, it has yielded mixed results thus far. We assessed whether the mental health of cohabiters is comparable to that of married individuals or those living alone using longitudinal data on psychotropic medication purchases. Panel data from an 11% random sample of the population residing in Finland for the years 1995 to 2007, with annual measurements of all covariates, were used. Ordinary least squares (OLS) models were applied to disentangle the relation between cohabitation and psychotropic medication purchases while controlling for relevant time-varying factors (age, education, economic activity, and number of children), and individual fixed effects (

SUBMITTER: van Hedel K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976833 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature