Adults with atypical MDD or double depression may be subgroups of the depressed population at particularly high risk of new-onset CVD. Thus, these subgroups may (a) be driving the overall depression-CVD relationship and (b) be in need of earlier and/or more intense CVD primary prevention efforts to reduce their excess CVD burden.

Depression is now the leading cause of disability worldwide, and globally more than 300 million people of all ages suffer from depression. Depression, despite its major health consequences, frequently goes unnoticed among university students, since their lives are often filled with symptoms normally associated with depression (e.g., loss of sleep, low energy, anxiety, and sadness). Successful adaptation to depression depends on the use of adequate coping strategies. The extent to which university students in India with high and low levels of depressive symptoms use adequate or inadequate coping strategies has not been evaluated. Based on the Center for Epidemiological Scale for Depression score, students were assigned to either the high depressive symptoms or the low depressive symptoms group. We used the Coping Response Inventory-Adult to determine the dominant coping strategies used by the two depressive symptoms groups. The high depressive symptom group resorted to more avoidant coping strategies than the low depressive symptom group, and women were more likely to use avoidant coping strategies than men.

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The Indian workplace is rapidly changing in accordance with the economic conditions, technology, corporate employment practices and demographic trends of the country. Globalisation has had strong implications on the attitudes of women, their work and health. This paper provides a profile of work-related health status that arises from a mixed pattern of employment, work processes and social support system. Major social, biological and chemical hazards are likely to be encountered in traditional female employment. Empirical studies have indicated that global stress perceived by women at the workplace include psychological and physical work demands, job control, anticipation of job loss, assessment of work associates, fear of abuse, family functions and stressful life events. It is difficult for working women to manage and balance their responsibilities. Social support at the family level is fading away due to increasing nuclear family norms, and at the organisational level due to automation systems. Most women muddle through, worrying and fighting with their problems in isolation. This leads to psychological and emotional stress, thereby increasing psychosomatic complaints. Support from the organisation, family and friends has increasingly been recognised as useful in reducing stress, protecting health and enhancing quality of life. The paper speaks of techniques of improving the social support network.

Student engagement in research is a principle of quality undergraduate psychology education. Research experiences can take many forms, but they all should ideally lead students to achieve American Psychological Association (APA) undergraduate major goals and prepare them for the workforce and graduate study. Therefore, research mentors should ensure high-quality research experiences that yield positive outcomes. There is expert consensus on what constitutes best practices in mentoring undergraduate research experiences and quasiexperimental evidence that research experiences are associated with positive student outcomes. However, researchers have not directly established a relationship between mentorship best practices and student outcomes, nor have they aligned outcomes with APA undergraduate major goals. The absence of such research is attributable to the lack of a common outcome measure and the small number of students who engage in research at single institutions. To facilitate assessment and research on best practices, mentors require a common measure of learning that is specific to undergraduate psychology research. Thus, the current paper proposes a new analytic rubric that synthesizes best practices in mentorship and the APA undergraduate major goals. The rubric's design will allow for assessment of APA undergraduate major goals related to research. In addition, the rubric could become the foundational element in a national assessment effort to determine the impact of varied research experiences and to evaluate the efficacy of mentorship best practices.