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Objective: Empowerment is a key aspect of recovery and a Tiffany 1837 Cuff links term in the mental health field, but there are few consistent definitions or validated measures of the construct. This study conducted psychometric testing on the Empowerment Scale, a widely used measure in the field. Methods: As part of the Consumer-Operated Multi-Site study funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, consumers with a psychiatric disability were administered the Empowerment Scale along with several other scales to measure clinical status and psychosocial factors. Results: Analyses produced five factors with acceptable fit statistics. The total scale demonstrated excellent reliability and validity. Conclusions: Analyses provide Square cuff links evidence that the total Empowerment Scale score is a reliable, valid measure; subscales of the scale appear less robust. Empowerment is considered an essential factor in recovery-oriented programs and systems, and the use of psychometrically sound measures such as the Empowerment Scale therefore may be useful to evaluators.

It is frequently asserted that marriage is more beneficial for the mental health of men than women (Gove & Tudor, 1973; Wu & DeMaris, 1996; Kiecolt-Glaser & Newton, 2001), but the evidence for this is far from clear cut (Wishman et al. 2006). Research has shown that marital distress is a risk factor Tiffany Metropolis Cuff links anxiety and mood disorders for both men and women (Wishman & Bruce, 1999; Wishman et al. 2006), but that women are more likely to experience marital distress (Almeida & Kessler, 1998; Schumm et al. 1998). This makes gender differences in marital distress a plausible contributory factor to the higher rates of depression or anxiety among married women relative to married men (Wishman et al. 2006), but it does not clarify whether gender differences in prevalence of anxiety-mood disorders are actually greater among the married than the never married or the previously married.

Longitudinal studies can usually provide greater clarity on this issue than Frank Gehry Fish cuff links-sectional studies because their information on the temporal sequence of mental health symptoms and marital status change helps to differentiate selection (into or out of marriage on the basis of prior mental health) from protection effects. Most longitudinal studies on the relationship between marital status and mental health have focused on depression and most of these have investigated the effects of marital dissolution. These studies have generally found that separation or divorce is associated with increased risk of depression, but they are strikingly inconsistent in whether they find this increase higher among women (Aseltine & Kessler, 1993; Marks & Lambert, 1998; Hope et al. 1999), higher among men (Bruce & Kim, 1992; Kendler et al. 2001) or the same across genders (Booth & Amato, 1991; Maciejewski et al. 2001; Gahler, 2006). The few studies on gender Tiffany 1837 concove circle cufflinks in mental health outcomes associated with getting married relative to remaining unmarried also vary in their findings.