Co-dependency and Marital Adjustment in Depression.

Living with a depressed spouse can be burdensome as it poses the greater distress in the marital life. Present paper examines these aspects as marital adjustment and codependency in 30 subjects, 12 male and 18 female with depression. BDI, Marital Adjustment Questionnaire and Span-Fisher Co-Dependency scale were used to assess the marital adjustment and codependency. However, study could not pickup any statistically significant correlation between depression and marital adjustment, depression and codependency and marital adjustment and codependency.