This study investigated the multiple correlation between physical health status and a set of marriage-related "predictor" variables. Family practice physicians provided a sample of 104 married couples. Marital satisfaction, depression, number of visits to physician, and educational level were among the set of cross-validated "predictors" of reported physical health status. The correlation between physical health status and depression was significantly greater for wives than husbands. For wives, marital satisfaction and depression were related primarily through the uncontrolled variance in physical health status, whereas for husbands a significant relationship between marital satisfaction and depression remained for husbands when physical health status was partialed out. These findings support similar conclusions drawn by others.
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