Journal article
Personality and gender-related differences in depression
Journal of affective disorders, Vol.7(3), pp.211-221
1984
DOI: 10.1016/0165-0327(84)90042-9
PMID: 6241205
Abstract
Seventy recovered female nonbipolar depressed patients and 32 recovered males were individually matched for age, sex and marital status with never mentally ill control subjects. Difference scores on personality scales indicative of interpersonal dependency, learned helplessness, and other features were compared for female patients and their matched controls, vs male patients and their controls. The difference between patients and controls was not less for females than males. Thus the hypothesis that the higher prevalence of depression in women is due to the fact that their general personality features resemble those associated with a predisposition to depression was not supported.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Personality and gender-related differences in depression
- Creators
- R.M.A Hirschfeld - Center for Studies of Affective Disorders, Clinical Research Branch, NIMH, Rockville, MD, U.S.AG.L Klerman - Harvard Medical School, Psychiatric Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, U.S.AP.J Clayton - Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, University Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.AM.B Keller - Harvard Medical School, Psychiatric Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, U.S.AN.C Andreasen - College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of affective disorders, Vol.7(3), pp.211-221
- DOI
- 10.1016/0165-0327(84)90042-9
- PMID
- 6241205
- NLM abbreviation
- J Affect Disord
- ISSN
- 0165-0327
- eISSN
- 1573-2517
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1984
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984003992502771
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