How Your Partner Infects You with Mental Illness (Nature vs. Nurture Debate)
October 10, 2025
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as posted by the channelDiathesis-stress (stress-vulnerability) model: the vulnerability could be a psychological need and the stress the outcome of frustration.
Paranoid ideation: meaning vs. reality
Avoidance: hurt vs. socializing
Narcissism: inflated fantastic self-worth (explicit self-esteem, self-concept) vs. truth
LITERATURE
Fan, C.C., Dehkordi, S.R., Border, R. et al. Spousal correlations for nine psychiatric disorders are consistent across cultures and persistent over generations. Nat Hum Behav (2025).
Horwitz, T.B., Balbona, J.V., Paulich, K.N. et al. Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and metaanalyses of 22 traits and UK Biobank analysis of 133 traits. Nat Hum Behav 7, 15681583 (2023).
Torvik, F.A., Sunde, H.F., Cheesman, R. et al. Nonrandom mating patterns within and across education and mental and somatic health. Nat Commun 15, 10505 (2024).
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