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The time has come to talk of many things: A commentary on Kurdek (1998) and the emerging field of marital processes in depression.

1999; American Psychological Association; Volume: 13; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1037/0893-3200.13.4.663

1939-1293

Steven R. H. Beach, Adam Davey, Frank D. Fincham,

Mental Health Research Topics

In an important investigation of the longitudinal relation between marital adjustmentand depressive symptoms, L. A. Kurdek (1998) reported an apparent failure toreplicate prior findings reported by F. D. Fincham, S. R. H. Beach, G. T. Harold, andL. N. Osborne (1997). He attributed the diverging results to differences between theanalytic approach taken in each of the studies. The authors reanalyzed F. D. Finchamet al.'s data using L. A. Kurdek's analytic procedures and found no change in results.A more parsimonious assessment of the diverging results is that L. A. Kurdek failedto generalize F. D. Fincham et al.'s findings to a longer time lag and a samplecharacterized by a rather different pattern of attrition. The authors highlight severalimportant issues that require greater attention in developing a cumulative body ofknowledge on the longitudinal relation between marital processes and depression.The time has come, the Walrus said, To talkof many things: Of shoes- and ships- and sealingwax- Of cabbages- and kings- And why the seais boiling hot- And whether pigs have wings.—Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass