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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