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

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	"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
刊名	FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
	2016-09-15
通讯作者邮箱	wangk@psych.ac.cn
卷号	7 期号:0 页码:1-9
关键词	gender difference depression age social gender role economic status BDI
ISSN号	1664-1078
通讯作者	Wang, Kui
英文摘要	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.
WOS标题词	Social Sciences
类目[WOS]	Psychology, Multidisciplinary
研究领域[WOS]	Psychology
关键词[WOS]	NATIONAL COMORBIDITY SURVEY ; SEX-DIFFERENCES ; COLLEGE-STUDENTS ; MENTAL-HEALTH ; INVENTORY-II ; COGNITIVE VULNERABILITY ; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES ; UNIVERSITY-STUDENTS ; METROPOLITAN CHINA ; GENERAL-POPULATION
收录类别	SSCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000383124900001
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/20390]
专题	心理研究所_中国科学院心理健康重点实验室
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
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.