In an epidemiological study of mental health in couples, individual and systemic approaches were compared in terms of their appropriateness for general versus clinical populations. / The primary results from the study of 845 couples in the general population suggest that there exists a significant spouse-similarity across the various mental health dimensions examined (psychological distress, general well-being, and role satisfaction). / The main results from the study of 17 couples in marital therapy suggest that significant sex differences exist in dyadic adjustment. Sex differences were also noted in the correlations between dyadic adjustment and depressive symptoms. / In conclusion, it appears that epidemiological research on the mental health of couples should have as its objective a simultaneous consideration of both the individual and the couple, as well as a simultaneous consideration of clinical and general populations, in order to create a double complementarity out of this apparent double dichotomy.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.59993 |
| Date | January 1991 |
| Creators | Galbaud du Fort, Guillaume |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Psychiatry.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001217431, proquestno: AAIMM67648, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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