Major Depression

A. Gender, Parental loss, Parental rearing, Personality, Traumatic Events, Social, Genetic Influences

III. Sample Study: Kendler, & et al.

1. Treatment of Temporal Depression

It has been noticed in many prevalence studies and in the few incidence studies that rates of depression are highest in females. Explanations for these differences include genetic, biological, and sociological hypotheses. It is the thesis of this research that major depression is a multifactorial disorder that affects women at a higher rate than it affects men.

Major, or clinical, depressive disorder is characterized by periods of dysphoria, fatigue, hopelessness, and sleep and appetite disturbances lasting at least one week (Leon, Lerman, & Wickramaratne, 1993, p. 754). The most obvious aspect of depression is a marked reduction in the frequency of certain kinds of activity and an increase in the frequ

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eflected by the impact of three predictor variables: parental warmth, social support, and recent difficulties. Individuals who saw their parents as loving may be able to form more stable and mutually supportive long-term relationships that are less prone to develop difficulties (Kendler & et al., 1993, p. 1145). Another factor that was found to be a predictor of future episodes of depression was neuroticism (Hirschfeld & et al., 1989, pp. 345-350). The results suggested a modest relationship between the genetic factors that influence the risk for major depression and neuroticism (Maier, Lichtermann, Minges & Heun, 1992, pp. 153-164). In this study, approximately seven percent of the total effect of genetic factors on the liability to episodes of major depression occurred through their impact on neuroticism. A large proportion of the effect of temperament on the liability to major depression is indirect. Neuroticism both increases the risk for prior episodes of major depression and reduces levels of social support. In addition, the path from neuroticism to a prior history of major depression is larger than the path from neuroticism to prospectively assessed depressive episodes. By contrast, genetic factors influence both
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