TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Depressive symptoms among U.S. and Indian college students: the effects of gender and gender role
JO  - Journal of social psychology
A1  - Upmanyu, V. V.
A1  - Upmanyu, Sushma
A1  - Lester, David
SP  - 669
EP  - 671
VL  - 140
IS  - 5
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-4545
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224540009600508
ID  - ref1
ER  -