Psychology and aging
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Cross-sectional findings that depressive symptoms in one older spouse influence those of the other and that marital closeness increases the influences (R. B. Tower & S. ⋯ For wives in 1985 and for husbands in 1988, a spouse's baseline depressive symptoms also contributed independent variance to an increase in respondent's score on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. These findings were stronger when a couple was close. These results held when known intrapersonal risk factors and the health status of the spouse were controlled.