Depression and Social Vulnerability to Depression

Female vulnerability to depression

Evidence from several sources indicates that there is an increased risk of neuroses among women. This evidence derives from psychiatric in-patient samples (Cochrane & Stopes-Roe, 1981), from general practice patients (Shepherd et al. 1966) and, most important, from community studies (Bebbington et al. 1981). Weissman & Klerman (1977) have reviewed the evidence and argue that social factors cont...

[Cognitive vulnerability to depression].

This concise review of cognitive vulnerability to depression contains the discussion of several fundamental theoretical, methodological and empirical issues related to this important subject. The main aim was to describe in some detail the construct itself and to critically evaluate the hypotheses concerning the causal relation between specific processes, structures and cognitive contents and t...

Depression and Cognitive Vulnerability

Attentional biases and vulnerability to depression.

This study was designed to examine selective processing of emotional information in depression. It focuses on possible attentional biases in depression, and whether such biases constitute a cognitive vulnerability factor to suffer from the disorder or, on the contrary, they reflect a feature associated exclusively with the clinical level of depression. 81 participants were included in the study...

Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression Can Be Contagious

Cognitive vulnerability is a potent risk factor for depression. Individual differences in cognitive vulnerability solidify in early adolescence and remain stable throughout the life span. However, stability does not mean immutability. We hypothesized that cognitive vulnerability would be susceptible to change during major life transitions when social milieus undergo significant changes (e.g., m...