Female vulnerability to depression

The emerging modern face of mood disorders: a didactic editorial with a detailed presentation of data and definitions

“…The few available community-based studies suggest that younger age, low social class, and negative and stressful life events linked to the family were associated with increased risk of new onset of depression [20]. Other studies suggest that female gender [21-24], marital status, family history of depression, suicide and alcoholism, early childhood abuse [25], specific personality features (introversion, worry, dependency and interpersonal sensitivity) [26-30], life events (especially loss and bereavement), chronic stress (financial, family and interpersonal difficulties), and daily hassles [31-33] constitute important risk factors, with age playing a complex role [34]. MDD has an average age of onset between 20 and 40 years while BP appears most frequently in the early 20 s [22].…”

origines sociales et culturelles des troubles psychologiques

“…L'étude classique de Brown et Harris (1978) montre clairement que le fait d'être confiné à la maison avec trois enfants de moins de 14 ans et sans l'appui du mari comme confident constitue la constellation de facteurs de vulnérabilité la plus favorable à une dépression, du moins chez un groupe de femmes d'un quartier défa-vorisé de Londres. L'ensemble des études qui ont suivi confirment ce modèle, avec certaines variantes (Tennant, 1985). Les résultats de Gore et Mangione sur une échelle de dépression (1983) montrent également que les ménagères ayant un enfant âgé de 6 à 12 ans à la maison sont plus à risques.…”

Gender differences in recognising depression in a case vignette in a university student population: Interaction of participant and vignette subject gender with depressive symptomatology

“…Epidemiological research has consistently shown that the prevalence of depression is approximately twice as high among women as among men [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. There are, however, puzzling observations.…”

“…There are, however, puzzling observations. First, gender differences have been noted only from the mid-20 s to around 60 years of age [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Second, the prevalence of depression is very similar between men and women when examining individuals belonging to socially homogeneous groups [15].…”