caa a22 4500 38635474X CHVBK 20180307111847.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0033291700012447 doi S0033291700012447 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0033291700012447 Is sex necessarily a risk factor to depression? [Elektronische Daten] To isolate and quantify possible determinants of any increased prevalence of depressive disorders in women we studied a select group of men and women, initially similar in terms of a number of putative social determinants of depression, and reviewed the sample five years later when social role diversity was anticipated. We used the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) to generate DSM-III and RDC diagnoses to estimate lifetime depressive disorders, and established (via corroborative reports) the likely accuracy of those data. Despite lifetime depression being a relatively common experience, no significant sex differences in depressive episodes were demonstrated, suggesting the possible irrelevance of biological factors in determining any sex difference. As there was not major social role divergence over the five year study, we interpret the lack of a sex difference as a consequence, and suggest that findings support the view that social factors are of key relevance in determining any female preponderance in depression described in general population studies. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Wilhelm Kay School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Mood Disorders Unit, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, Australia Parker Gordon School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Mood Disorders Unit, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, Australia Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/2(1989-05), 401-413 0033-2917 19:2<401 1989 19 PSM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700012447 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700012447 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wilhelm Kay School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Mood Disorders Unit, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, Australia NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Parker Gordon School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Mood Disorders Unit, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, Australia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/2(1989-05), 401-413 0033-2917 19:2<401 1989 19 PSM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge