雖然，壓抑的人們與無壓抑的個體相比，婚姻質量較差，但結婚可能使他們在心理水平上受益。這個結論是由最新的一項研究揭示的。
 
“基于先前的研究，我們假設壓抑的人們婚姻的質量較差，從而較少從婚姻中受益，”俄亥俄州立大學Adrianne Frech博士說，“但是我們的研究結果不完全這樣認為。”

Frech團隊所使用的數據來自國家家庭普查。這項研究包括3,066未婚個體在55歲或以下。為了確定壓抑的個體，研究學者使用一項含有12個部分的檢測項目，并且把達到23分或更高的病人視為受壓抑人群。

又經過5年后續研究，研究學者對研究對象此階段內結婚后的狀態做了調查，詢問他們的婚姻質量以及他們心理學上婚前婚后的變化。此研究排除了那些五年中結婚后又離婚的的個體。

研究表明，五年間結婚的個體與仍單身的個體相比，測試分數下降3.5分。對所有壓抑的個體來說，結婚的人群與單身個體相比在情感指數上平均下降7.5分。而未有壓抑表現的對照人群中結婚對其心理因素的改變很小。

研究結果確定受壓抑的人群從婚姻中得到的歡樂較少、而困惑較多。然而，結婚可以改善他們的情感。先前的研究還表明受壓抑的人群從穩定的社會支持中獲得的好處要比不受壓抑的人群要多得多。

美國佛州大學社會學博士Robin Simon贊同此項研究得到的結果。她說：“這項研究與我的理解相一致。壓抑的一種癥狀是單獨并缺乏友誼。對結婚能改善心理狀態，我一點也不吃驚。”

Depression: Getting Married Seems To Help

Even though depressed people have a poorer marriage quality than people who are not depressed, marriage provides greater psychological benefits for them, a new study reveals. 

“Based on previous research, we hypothesized that people who are depressed would have worse marital quality and would therefore experience fewer benefits from marriage,” Adrianne Frech, , Ph.D. from Ohio State University in Columbus said, “but that is not what we found.” 

Frech’s team used data from the National Survey of Families and Households. The study included 3,066 unmarried people aged 55 years and under. To identify depressed individuals, researchers used a 12-item test for depression and considered respondents depressed if they scored 23 or more points on the test. 

After a follow-up period of five years, researchers identified people who married during the period, asked about the quality of their marriages and how their psychological well-being changed. The study excluded participants who married but ended up divorcing before the five-year follow-up. 

Researchers found that the participants who married within the five-year period scored an average of about 3.5 points lower on the depression test than those who remained single. Of all the depressed participants, those who got married scored an average 7.5 points lower on the mood scale than the people who remained single. The non-depressed experienced a smaller change in their psychological well-being if they got married. 

Results from the study confirmed that depressed people report less marital happiness and more marital conflict. Nevertheless, being married enhanced their mood. Previous studies also suggest that depressed people benefit from stable social support more than the non-depressed. 

Robin Simon, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology from Florida State University in Tallahassee, agrees that this is likely. “The study’s findings make perfect sense to me. One symptom of depression is loneliness and lack of companionship. I am not surprised that marriage would supply a psychological boost for the previously depressed,” she said.