Romantic relationships and mental health
Romantic relationships and mental health
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DOI：
10.1016/j.copsyc.2016.04.001
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发表时间：
2017-02-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Holt-Lunstad, Julianne
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作者：
Braithwaite, Scott;Holt-Lunstad, Julianne
本文对人际关系与心理健康的研究进行了综述。心理健康的人更有可能选择关系，但关系也与心理健康有关。关系的类型很重要--有证据表明，更稳固、更忠诚的关系，如婚姻，比不那么忠诚的结合，如同居，带来更大的好处。关系和心理健康之间的关联显然是双向的，然而，当心理健康是结果而关系是预测因素时，观察到更强的影响，这表明因果箭头从关系流向心理健康比反之亦然。此外，改善关系可以改善心理健康，但改善心理健康并不能可靠地改善关系。我们对研究的回顾证实了这样一种观点，即关系是人类功能的关键组成部分，有可能影响广泛的心理健康结果。
This paper reviews the research on relationships and mental health. Individuals who are more mentally healthy are more likely to select into relationships, but relationships are also demonstrably associated with mental health. The type of relationship matters - evidence suggests that more established, committed relationships, such as marriage, are associated with greater benefits than less committed unions such as cohabitation. The association between relationships and mental health is clearly bidirectional, however, stronger effects are observed when mental health is the outcome and relationships are the predictor, suggesting that the causal arrow flows more strongly from relationships to mental health than vice versa. Moreover, improving relationships improves mental health, but improving mental health does not reliably improve relationships. Our review of research corroborates the view that relationships are a keystone component of human functioning that have the potential to influence a broad array of mental health outcomes.