Journal article
Sex differences in the clinical expression of depression
Abstract
Recent epidemiological studies have established that the lifetime prevalence rate of depression is greater in women than in men. It was the purpose of the present study to investigate the possibility that the true prevalence of male depression is underestimated because males have learned through social rejection that it is inappropriate for them to openly express depressive feelings. Consistent with this notion that men only express depressive …
Authors
Vredenburg K; Krames L; Flett GL
Journal
Sex Roles, Vol. 14, No. 1-2, pp. 37–49
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
January 1986
DOI
10.1007/bf00287846
ISSN
0360-0025