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Social Order and Mental Health.
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1981-03-01. It has received 33 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mental health & Mental health law.read more
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Gender and age differences in the prevalence of specific fears and phobias
TL;DR: Fear of flying increased and fear of injections decreased as a function of age in women but not in men, indicating specific fears and phobias are heterogeneous with respect to sex and age distribution.
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The Zurich Study. XII. Sex differences in depression. Evidence from longitudinal epidemiological data.
Cécile Ernst,Jules Angst +1 more
TL;DR: Among women, a diagnosis of depression was more often associated with disturbances of appetite and with phobias than among men, and when syndromes or diagnoses were controlled, women and men suffered to an equal rate from subjective impairment at work.
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Are we entering an age of melancholy? Depressive illnesses in a prospective epidemiological study over 25 years: The Lundby Study, Sweden.
TL;DR: Comparisons were made of the incidence figures for depression during the periods 1947-57 and 1957-72, and during the five 5-year intervals within the period.
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Age-cohort changes in the lifetime occurrence of depression and other mental disorders
TL;DR: The power of 4 variables (current mood state, social desirability response bias, labeling, and time interval between the episode and the diagnostic interview) was examined to produce results without an actual increase in the rate of mental disorder.
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Depressive symptoms and their correlates among immigrant Mexican women in the United States.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between depressive symptomatology and caseness for a survey sample of N = 1825 poor Mexican immigrant women in San Diego County, California and found statistically significant associations between CES--D and education, years in the United States, income, marital status and number of adults in household.