Citation

Upmanyu VV, Upmanyu S, Lester D. J. Soc. Psychol. 2000; 140(5): 669-671.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00224540009600508

PMID

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Abstract

Research in the past few years has revealed a preponderance of women among depressive patients in the united states and most western countries (nolen-hoeksema, 1990). However, this gender difference appeared to be reversed in some clinical samples from africa and india (weissman & klerman, 1977). One explanation of this gender difference focuses on men's and women's gender role orientations. Researchers have reported better psychological adjustment in men and women with a high number of both masculine and feminine traits, presumably because of the appropriateness of balanced and adaptable character structure in comparison with the one-sided masculinity or one-sided femininity of the gender-typed individual (spence & helmreich, 1979). our aim in the present study was to explore the relationship of gender, gender role orientation, and hopelessness to depressive tendencies in …

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