Gender Differences in Depression

By Susan Nolen-Hoeksema. 2001

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Perceived emotional intelligence and dispositional optimism–pessimism: Analyzing their role in predicting psychological adjustment among adolescents (2007, result): “are in accordance with the body of research that finds that males reported less psychological maladjustment than females (Nolen-Hoeksema, 2001).”
An fMRI Study of Cytokine-Induced Depressed Mood and Social Pain: The Role of Sex Differences (2009, background): “Based on the higher prevalence of both depressive disorders and autoimmune conditions in females (Nolen-Hoeksema, 2001; Whitacre et al., 1999), sex hormones seem a likely contributor to sex differences in cytokine-associated depressed mood.”
Gender differences in unipolar depression: an update of epidemiological findings and possible explanations (2003, background): “Evidence for the impact of socio-cultural factors has previously also been described from studies showing that gender differences in depression are less pronounced or lacking in societies where the traditional female role is valued similarly to that of men (114).”
The Relationship Between Latino Adolescents’ Perceptions of Discrimination, Neighborhood Risk, and Parenting on Self-Esteem and Depressive Symptoms (2011, background): “…plethora of studies have attempted to explain the emergence of these gendered differences by exploring a number of psychosocial risk factors among European American and African American populations (e.g., Grant, Lyons, Finkelstein, Conway, & Reynolds, 2004; Nolen-Hoeksema, 2001; Rudolph, 2002).”
PTSD Symptoms and Self-Rated Recovery Among Adult Sexual Assault Survivors: The Effects of Traumatic Life Events and Psychosocial Variables (2009, background): “unresolved attempts to attach meaning to a trauma experience result in maladaptive rumination, known to be common in women victims and to lead to psychological symptoms (Cutler & Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991; Nolen-Hoeksema, 2001).”
The Role of Shame in Predicting Adult Anger and Depressive Symptoms Among Victims of Child Psychological Maltreatment (2004, result): “Although gender differences were not predicted, these findings are consistent with previous research that shows a greater prevalence of depression among women and greater anger and aggression in men (e.g., Eagly & Steffen, 1986; Nolen-Hoeksema, 2001; Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 1999).”
Depression in the workplace: An economic cost analysis of depression-related productivity loss attributable to job strain and bullying (2013, background): “…of depression was found to be more common in young adults and the elderly than the middle aged (Mirowsky & Ross, 1992); a literature review by Nolen-Hoeksema (2001) found higher prevalence in women, which may be due to an association between oestrogen levels and depression (Douma, Husband,…”
Discrimination Distress among Chinese American Adolescents (2008, background): “Specifically, gender differences are often found for depression, with adolescent girls reporting higher levels of depression than boys ( Nolen-Hoeksema 2001 ); urban and immigrant teens often show greater mental health difficulties than suburban teens or those born in the U.S.”
The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization (2015, background): “Depression Sex differences in depression have been documented such that women have nearly twice the rate of depression as men (Fischer and Manstead 2000; Hopcroft and McLaughlin 2009; Nolen-Hoeksema 2001).”
Gender Differences in the Effects of Strain on the Delinquency of South Korean Youth (2007, result): “…internalize their responses to stress, a large body of research supports the conclusion that across national, cultural, and ethnic groups, beginning in early adolescence, females are twice as likely to experience depression as are males (e.g., Nolen-Hoeksema, 1990, 2001; Weissman et al., 1996).”
I Bask in Dreams of Suicide: Mental Illness, Poetry, and Women (2002, result): “This finding, in and of itself, is consistent with a great deal of past literature revealing, for example, that women report suffering from depression at a much higher rate than men (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1990, 2001).”