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Old 07-08-2008, 09:58 PM   #25 (permalink)
niche
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Yeah I guess you're right about the women making men think more.

I was reading my psychology text book again and I found something that related to what I'm saying. I just per chance happened to read over it in my assigned reading. To start, this part of the text is discussing sex differences in depression. It states that females are more likely than males to suffer from depression. The information I'm quoting is taken from the latest studies in depression.

"To make matters worse, pressures on women to behave in sex-stereotyped ways, may lead females to adopt some behaviors and dispositions - passivity, dependency, and fragility, for example - that they have been socialized to believe are part of the feminine role, and that may contribute to their depressed mood. Consistent with this, studies show that depression in females is significantly correlated with having a poor body image and with having low scores on measures of masculinity (Allgood-Merten, Lewinsohn, & Hops, 1990; Obeidallah, McHale, & Silbereisen, 1996; Seiffge-Krenke & Stemmler, 2002; Stice & Bearman, 2001; Stice, Hayward, Cameron, Killen, & Taylor, 2000; Wichstrom, 1999)."

What do you take of this? I thought it was interesting, but I was more interested in sharing it to see what ya'll think of it.
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