Anxiety disorders and marital quality.
Abstract
This study compared perceived marital quality among couples in which neither, one, or both spouses met criteria for an anxiety disorder. Phobic husbands and their wives reported poorer marital quality than did other spouses. Husbands' panic disorders had similar but weaker effects on perceived marital quality, and wives' panic disorders predicted poor perceived marital quality by by husbands. Wives with generalized anxiety disorder perceived their marriages to be less satisfying than did other wives. The effects of husbands' generalized anxiety disorders were strongest in the presence of comorbid depression or alcohol or drug dependence but the effects of husbands' phobias and of panic disorders did not vary with comorbidity. Spouse concordance for phobias was related to more favorable marital reports, but concordance for other anxiety disorders was unrelated to marital quality.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Wives with GAD reported their marriages to be of lower quality compared with wives who do not have GAD.
“wives with GAD reported their marriages to be of lower quality compared with wives who do not have GAD (McLeod, 1994).”
From Partner symptom accommodation in generalized anxiety disorder: A preliminary examination of correlates with symptoms and cognitive behavioural therapy outcome (2024) · cites this paper as McLeod, 1994
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Attentional biases for negative interpersonal stimuli in clinical depression
Gotlib, I. H., Krasnoperova, E., Yue, D. N., & Joormann, J. (2004) · Journal of Abnormal Psychology · doi:10.1037/0021-843x.113.1.121 · Cited by 911 · see citing works
Life course transitions and natural disaster: Marriage, birth, and divorce following Hurricane Hugo.
Cohan, C. L., & Cole, S. W. (2002) · Journal of Family Psychology · doi:10.1037/0893-3200.16.1.14 · Cited by 279 · see citing works
Whisman, M. A., Sheldon, C. T., & Goering, P. (2000) · Journal of Abnormal Psychology · doi:10.1037/0021-843x.109.4.803 · Cited by 285 · see citing works
Interpersonal pathoplasticity in individuals with generalized anxiety disorder
Przeworski, A., Newman, M. G., Pincus, A. L., Kasoff, M. B., Yamasaki, A. S., Castonguay, L. G., & Berlin, K. S. (2011) · Journal of Abnormal Psychology · doi:10.1037/a0023334 · Cited by 135 · see citing works
Halford, W. K., Bouma, R., Kelly, A., & Young, R. M. (1999) · Behavior Modification · doi:10.1177/0145445599232001 · Cited by 126 · see citing works
Zinbarg, R. E., Eun Lee, J., & Lira Yoon, K. (2007) · Behaviour Research and Therapy · doi:10.1016/j.brat.2006.06.005 · Cited by 95 · see citing works
Stevens, E. S., Jendrusina, A. A., Sarapas, C., & Behar, E. (2014) · The Wiley Handbook of Anxiety Disorders · doi:10.1002/9781118775349.ch21 · Cited by 9 · see citing works
Malivoire, B. L., Rowa, K., Milosevic, I., & McCabe, R. E. (2024) · Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy · doi:10.1017/s1352465824000213 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
“This is inconsistent with research showing that GAD is associated with relationship problems (e.g. Henning et al ., 2007; Hunt et al ., 2002; McLeod, 1994).”
- Authors
- McLeod, J. D.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Corresponding author
- McLeod, Jane D.
- ORCID
- McLeod, Jane D.
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Published
- 1994-11
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 767-776
- ISSN
- 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1846
- OpenAlex
- W1965164885
- Cited by
- 125
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 1.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (1r01mh040136-01, 5r29mh048211-03)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH40136, 1R29-MH48211)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- anxiety disorders, marital quality, marital satisfaction, phobia, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, comorbid depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, couples
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Anxiety Disorders, Female, Humans, Male, Marriage, Middle Aged, Phobic Disorders, Panic Disorder
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
