The social competition hypothesis of depression.
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...[280] Price J, Sloman L, Gardner R, Gilbert R, Rohde P....
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...A confrontation with a dominant is wasted effort that is likely to result in injury [279,280]....
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...The social rank theory always held the loss of conflicts, failures and defeats, to be central to depression (Price, 1992; Price et al. 1994)....
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...Although the concepts of entrapment and defeat are not new (Baumeister, 1990) and have been linked to both animal and human models of psychopathology for some time (Price, 1972; Henry, 1982; Gilbert, 1989, 1992; Dixon et al. 1989; Price et al. 1994), Brown et al....
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...Price (1972) was one of the first to suggest that depression evolved in the context of intrasexual selection with the function of limiting fighting (Price & Sloman, 1987; Gilbert, 1992; Price et al. 1994)....
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...This scale was developed to measure depressive symptomatology in non-psychiatric populations (Radloff, 1977). It is a 20-item scale that measures a range of symptoms (such as depressed mood, feelings of guilt, sleep disturbance). Respondents indicate on a 4-point scale (0–3) how often they have had the symptom in the past week. Scores range from 0 to 60, with higher scores indicating greater depressive symptoms. Radloff (1977) found internal consistency coefficients of greater than 0±84....
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