• DOI:10.1037/0033-295X.115.2.291
Corpus ID: 15091880

The ABCs of depression: integrating affective, biological, and cognitive models to explain the emergence of the gender difference in depression.

@article{Hyde2008TheAO,
  title={The ABCs of depression: integrating affective, biological, and cognitive models to explain the emergence of the gender difference in depression.},
  author={J. Hyde and A. Mezulis and L. Abramson},
  journal={Psychological review},
  year={2008},
  volume={115 2},
  pages={
          291-313
        }
}

• J. Hyde, A. Mezulis, L. Abramson
• Published 2008
• Psychology, Medicine
• Psychological review

In adulthood, twice as many women as men are depressed, a pattern that holds in most nations. In childhood, girls are no more depressed than boys, but more girls than boys are depressed by ages 13 to 15. Although many influences on this emergent gender difference in depression have been proposed, a truly integrated, developmental model is lacking. The authors propose a model that integrates affective (emotional reactivity), biological (genetic vulnerability, pubertal hormones, pubertal timing… Expand

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