PMID: 9448440Feb 4, 1998Paper

Sex differences in the experience of depressed mood state over fifteen years

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Kay WilhelmA Asghari

Abstract

A study was conducted to examine sex differences in frequency, duration and severity of experience of depressed mood state in a non-clinical group and to consider how such findings contribute to the understanding of sex differences in depressive experience. A cohort of 156 subjects, assessed initially in 1978 in their last year of teacher training, was reassessed at 5-yearly intervals over 15 years. On each occasion, the subjects completed self-report ratings of experience of "normal depression" and measures of neuroticism, trait depression, self-esteem and sex role. The study found no sex differences in the number or duration of episodes. Women reported more symptoms per episode and some specific symptoms (including tearfulness, appetite and weight gain) more often. The number of symptoms was correlated with neuroticism, self-esteem and trait depression scores, and with gender but not sex role. The number of episodes was related to trait depression and self-esteem but not neuroticism. The results showed that there are links between female gender, neuroticism and number of symptoms experienced during depressed mood state episodes. These links are related more to female gender than to feminine sex role or premenstrual problems, ...Continue Reading

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Apr 3, 2003·Journal of Psychosomatic Research·D G Byrne, J Mazanov
Apr 20, 2004·Journal of Affective Disorders·Anne Maria Möller-LeimkühlerWolfgang Rutz
Nov 6, 2003·Psychological Bulletin·Nicholas B Allen, Paul B T Badcock
May 2, 2009·The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science·Kay WilhelmPeter R Schofield
Feb 5, 2015·Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology·Stela Maris de Jezus CastroJoão Riboldi
Dec 7, 2007·The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry·Kay WilhelmLucinda Wedgwood
Nov 15, 2007·The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease·Sarah E RomansTrevor Silverstone
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Dec 31, 2010·Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology·Chien-Han Lai
Nov 5, 2010·International Review of Psychiatry·Gordon Parker, Heather Brotchie
Mar 2, 2006·The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science·Kay WilhelmPeter R Schofield

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