Gender and Depression in Psychology

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Introduction
The paper discusses the use of six articles which explains the concept of gender and
depression in psychology. The paper compares 6 articles, 5 primary research articles and 1
popular press article.
Summary of the articles
Luppa, M., Sikorski, C., Luck, T., Ehreke, L., Konnopka, A., Wiese, B., Weyerer, S., König,
H.H. and Riedel-Heller, S.G., 2012. Age-and gender-specific prevalence of depression in latest-
life–systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of affective disorders, 136(3), pp.212-221.
The article describes research on gender specific preference on depression. The article is
structured in the form of research including all the concept and procedures of research work. The
aim of the article was to describe the prevalence of depression in lifespan of 60 years and above.
Particularly the article focused on ages and concepts related to gender rates. The results obtained
from the research indicated that more than 13 studies used in the research gave high to moderate
quality results. The research also included the major causes of depression and the most age
affected by the issue of depression (Herbison, Allen, Robinson, Newnham & Pennell, 2017).
Hankin, B. L., Young, J. F., Abela, J. R., Smolen, A., Jenness, J. L., Gulley, L. D., ... &
Oppenheimer, C. W. (2015). Depression from childhood into late adolescence: influence of
gender, development, genetic susceptibility, and peer stress. Journal of abnormal psychology,
124(4), 803.
The article argues that depression is a mental illness that has developmental patterns
starting from childhood stage all the way to adulthood stage in human beings. The aim of the
article was to explain the concept of depression starting from childhood and the factors such as

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genetic concept, the peer stress and gender on how they induce the concept of depression (Maji,
2018). In addition in order to get the intended information, the research used 12 years old and
30-year-old participants so as to account on depression accounts for adolescent stages all the way
to adulthood. Before embarking on the results, the article started by articulating on how overall
prevalence rates of depression are affected by gender and also the pubertal stages experienced in
human beings. The results obtained indicated that old ages are prone to depression and they have
higher chronic stages as compared to childhood ages.
Silverstein, B., Edwards, T., Gamma, A., Ajdacic-Gross, V., Rossler, W., & Angst, J. (2013).
The role played by depression associated with somatic symptomatology in accounting for the
gender difference in the prevalence of depression. Social psychiatry and psychiatric
epidemiology, 48(2), 257-263.
The main objective of the article was to explain role played by somatic symptomatology
which is associated with depression. In order to explain the concept, the article has emphasized
gender prevalence's on the issue of depression. The article, therefore, tries to explain why
different researcher argues that depression is all accompanied by somatic symptomatology.
Therefore, in order to support the main idea the research was carried out and analyzed on how
somatic depression is induced and then compared with depression that is not induced by the
concept of somatic symptomatology which was clearly indicated as a pure depression during the
study (McLeod, Horwood & Fergusson, 2016).
Forlani, C., Morri, M., Ferrari, B., Dalmonte, E., Menchetti, M., De Ronchi, D., & Atti, A. R.
(2014). Prevalence and gender differences in late-life depression: a population-based study. The
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 22(4), 370-380.