Susceptibility and precipitating factors in depression: sex differences and similarities
- Författare
- Radloff LS, Rae DS.
- Titel
- Susceptibility and precipitating factors in depression: sex differences and similarities
- Utgivningsår
- 1979
- Tidskrift
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Volym
- 88
- Häfte
- 2
- Sidor
- 174-81
- Sammanfattning
Argues that the well-documented sex difference in depression may be due to a sex difference in susceptibility, in precipitating factors, or in both. Data from a large mental health survey (2,515 White over-18 residents of 2 cities) were used to study precipitating factors. It was found that women were exposed more often to more of the factors that relate to depression; with a few exceptions, the factors related to depression similarly for men and women. Matching on these factors did not eliminate the sex difference in depression. This suggests that there may be a sex difference in susceptibility. Current theories of depression are incorporated into a sequential model of how learned factors might contribute both to susceptibility and to the sex difference. (14 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)