@article{ref1,
title="Depressive symptoms among U.S. and Indian college students: the effects of gender and gender role",
journal="Journal of social psychology",
year="2000",
author="Upmanyu, V. V. and Upmanyu, Sushma and Lester, David",
volume="140",
number="5",
pages="669-671",
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 …<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4545",
doi="10.1080/00224540009600508",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224540009600508"
}