Research published today shows that the binding marriage brings positive effects to the mental health of both men and women, reducing the risk of common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, abuse stimulants. In contrast, separated, divorced or widowed always co-operated with the increase in mental disorders in both sexes, especially abuse of stimulants for women, and depression in men, Xinhua news agency for.

Research by clinical psychologist Kate Scott from the University of Otego, New Zealand lead the implementation, based on surveys of mental health by the World Health Organization in a series of national development and developing in the last decade, published in the journal Psychological Medicine.