Abstract: Background: The psychological distress is one of the leading silent causes of mental illnesses particularly in developing countries like Zimbabwe. Most communities in the Sub-Sahara Africa relate mental illnesses to witch crafting or avenging spirits for wrongdoing, without considering the human environments. In Zimbabwe, early marriage, as one of the causes of mental illnesses has not been much researched and documented.The empirical evidence is key in enhancing understanding of psychological distress as one of negative impacts of early marriages. This study is meant to increase evidence of the effects of early marriage through comparing married and non-married female teenagers in line with the likelihood of developing the psychological distress. The study sought to answer......
Keywords Psychological Distress, Female teenager, early marriage; Mount Darwin.
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