IF the wife earns more than the husband in the family, both spouses are
more likely to have mental health problems. These are the results of a
study that examined Swedish couples.
However, the mental health of the man is particularly tested.
When the wife earns more than her husband, the likelihood of a mental
health diagnosis increases in men by up to eleven percent. Men may then
be inclined to reach for the bottle.
DEMID Getik, a researcher at Durham University in the UK, followed the
data of heterosexual couples who married in Sweden in 2001 for ten
years. He combined, for example, data from the Swedish population
register, the patient register and the tax administration.
In his analysis, Getik focused on couples whose incomes were close to
each other.
“Once the threshold is crossed where the wife starts to earn more, the probability of receiving a mental health diagnosis increases
significantly,” Getik writes in The Economic Journal, the scientific
journal that published the study.
The relative increase in the wife's income was particularly evident in
men's mental health diagnoses related to substance abuse, Getik reports.
In women, on the other hand, issues related to neuroticism and stress
were more prominent.
About 80 percent of the couples remained married during the study's
follow-up.
Previous studies around the world have also found that men become
stressed if their wives have the largest household income.
However, men are most stressed when they are the sole breadwinners in
the family, according to a 2019 study of American couples. Stress
decreases if the wife also brings bread to the table.
According to a US study, a man's stress is lowest when his wife earns 40 percent of the couple's income. If the earnings exceed this percentage,
men's psychological stress begins to increase again.
https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000011104872.html
If the spouse isn't making money, hubby hits the bottle. If the spouse
makes more than 40%, hubby hits the bottle. If the wife makes more than
the hubby, EVERYBODY drinks.
Skål på det.
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