Srh. Beach et al., EFFECTS OF MARITAL AND COWORKER RELATIONSHIPS ON NEGATIVE AFFECT - TESTING THE CENTRAL ROLE OF MARRIAGE, The American journal of family therapy, 21(4), 1993, pp. 313-323
Many authors have noted the importance of the marital relationship for
regulating mood. Marriage is asserted to be a primary source of both
social support and interpersonal stress. In the current investigation,
an index of salient social support irrespective of source and an inde
x of salient interpersonal stress irrespective of source were found to
be related to level of negative affective symptoms. As predicted, the
marital relationship was found to be the most frequently named source
of support, but Co-workers were named equally often as a source of in
terpersonal stress. Marital satisfaction was found to be the most cons
equential interpersonal variable for predicting level of negative affe
ct.