"Female Preponderance" of Depression in Non-clinical Populations: A Meta-Analytic Study

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01398

	"Female Preponderance" of Depression in Non-clinical Populations: A Meta-Analytic Study
	Wang, Kui1,2 ; Lu, Han 3,4; Cheung, Eric F. C.5; Neumann, David L.6,7; Shum, David H. K.6,7; Chan, Raymond C. K.1
通讯作者邮箱	[email protected]
摘要	Clinical observations and research suggest a female preponderance in major depressive disorder. However, it is unclear whether a similar gender difference is found for the reporting of depressive symptoms in non-clinical populations. The present meta-analysis was conducted to address this issue. We searched for published papers targeting non-clinical populations in which the 21-item Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was used. Eighty-four papers (91 studies) published between 1977 and 2014 were included in the final meta-analysis, which comprised 23,579 males and 29,470 females. Females in the general population reported higher level of depressive symptoms than males (d = -0.187, corresponding to 1.159 points in the 21-item BDI). This pattern was not found to influence by years of publication, socioeconomic status, or version of the BDI used. Using age group as a moderator, studies with adolescents and young adults were found to show a smaller effect size than studies with older participants. Our results appear to confirm the female preponderance in the level of self-report depressive symptoms in the general population, and support the social gender role theory in explaining gender difference over biological susceptibility theory and evolutionary theory.
关键词	Gender Difference Depression Age Social Gender Role Economic Status Bdi
	2016-09-15
语种	英语
DOI	10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01398
发表期刊	FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN	1664-1078
卷号	7 期号:0 页码:1-9
期刊论文类型	Review
收录类别	SSCI
WOS关键词	NATIONAL COMORBIDITY SURVEY ; SEX-DIFFERENCES ; COLLEGE-STUDENTS ; MENTAL-HEALTH ; INVENTORY-II ; COGNITIVE VULNERABILITY ; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES ; UNIVERSITY-STUDENTS ; METROPOLITAN CHINA ; GENERAL-POPULATION
WOS标题词	Social Sciences
WOS研究方向	Psychology
WOS类目	Psychology, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000383124900001
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China(31200775) ; Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences(KLMH2014ZG09) ; China Scholarship Council as a visiting scholar ; CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams(Y2CX131003)
引用统计	被引频次：38[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/20390
专题	中国科学院心理健康重点实验室
通讯作者	Wang, Kui
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Mental Hlth, Neuropsychol & Appl Cognit Neurosci Lab, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Humanities & Social Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Strasbourg, Neurosci, Strasbourg, France 4.Beijing Normal Univ, Sch Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China 5.Castle Peak Hosp, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China 6.Griffith Univ, Menzies Hlth Inst Queensland, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia 7.Griffith Univ, Sch Appl Psychol, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia
第一作者单位	认知与发展心理学研究室
通讯作者单位	认知与发展心理学研究室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Kui,Lu, Han,Cheung, Eric F. C.,et al. "Female Preponderance" of Depression in Non-clinical Populations: A Meta-Analytic Study[J]. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,2016,7(0):1-9.
APA	Wang, Kui,Lu, Han,Cheung, Eric F. C.,Neumann, David L.,Shum, David H. K.,&Chan, Raymond C. K..(2016)."Female Preponderance" of Depression in Non-clinical Populations: A Meta-Analytic Study.FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,7(0),1-9.
MLA	Wang, Kui,et al.""Female Preponderance" of Depression in Non-clinical Populations: A Meta-Analytic Study".FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY 7.0(2016):1-9.

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