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The Experience of Symptoms of Depression in Men vs Women: Analysis of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

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Whether sex disparities in depression rates disappear when alternative symptoms are considered in the place of, or in addition to, more conventional depression symptoms is explored.
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RESULTS Men reported higher rates of anger attacks/aggression, substance abuse, and risk taking compared with women. Analyses using the scale that included alternative, male-type symptoms of depression found that a higher proportion of men (26.3%) than women (21.9%) (P = .007) met criteria for depression. Analyses using the scale that included alternative and traditional depression symptoms found that men and women met criteria for depression in equal proportions: 30.6% of men and 33.3% of women (P =. 57).

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What Is Coefficient Alpha? An Examination of Theory and Applications

TL;DR: A review of the Social Sciences Citations Index for the literature from 1966 to 1990 revealed that Cronbach's (1951) article had been cited approximately 60 times per year and in a total of 278 different journals.
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Sex and depression in the National Comorbidity Survey I: Lifetime prevalence, chronicity and recurrence

TL;DR: Age of onset analysis shows that this sex difference begins in early adolescence and persists through the mid-50s and means that the higher prevalence of 12-month depression among women than men is largely due to women having a higher risk of first onset.
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The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among adults living in private households

H Meltzer
TL;DR: Background, aims and coverage of the survey Measurement and classification of psychiatric disorders Sampling and interviewing procedures Distribution of CIS-R scores Prevalence of neurotic symptoms and prevalent psychiatric disorders.
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