Canadian Study Probes into Depression and Divorce
Our friends from up north have released the results of a study examining new bouts of depression in relation to marriage and divorce. A Canadian Press story details how a Statistics Canada study claims that the likelihood of a new bout of depression increases for people who have gotten a divorce as compared to those people who are still married to their spouse. Specifically, 12 percent of the people who were divorced and surveyed in the study reported that they experienced a new case of depression after their divorce in comparison to three percent of the married people who experienced similar new feelings and participated in the study. The study added that men appear to take divorce harder than women.
The study found that men who were separated or already divorced were six times more likely to have a new episode of depression as compared to those men who are married. As for women, the study stated that women who were separated or divorced were 3.5 times more likely to report a new case of depression as compared to their married counterparts.
The study added that depression during life after divorce was independent and not related to other issues commonly experienced after a breakup, including declines in social support, household income and the number of children in the household. The study concluded that this post-divorce depression was gone for most people four years after the breakup.
