J Breslau, E Miller, R Jin, N A Sampson, J Alonso, L H Andrade, E J Bromet, G de Girolamo, K Demyttenaere, J Fayyad, A Fukao, M Gălăon, O Gureje, Y He, H R Hinkov, C Hu, V Kovess-Masfety, H Matschinger, M E Medina-Mora, J Ormel, J Posada-Villa, R Sagar, K M Scott, R C Kessler
OBJECTIVE: Estimate predictive associations of mental disorders with marriage and divorce in a cross-national sample. METHOD: Population surveys of mental disorders included assessment of age at first marriage in 19 countries (n = 46,128) and age at first divorce in a subset of 12 countries (n = 30,729). Associations between mental disorders and subsequent marriage and divorce were estimated in discrete time survival models. RESULTS: Fourteen of 18 premarital mental disorders are associated with lower likelihood of ever marrying (odds ratios ranging from 0...
December 2011: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica