PS287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Major Depressive Disorder, Binge Eating, Differential Item Functioning
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Must distinguish between: depressive symptoms, crying, sadness, loss of interest etc, most people experience from time to time. Symptoms over a period of 2 weeks: depressive symptoms, major depression disorder. 2 methods for studying depression: surveys representative sample, people reluctant to admit depression (m > w, treatment facilities, bias in seeking help (m < w, better measures of depression. Depression and gender: women experience more depressive symptoms, women experience more clinical depression. Sex difference is less in less traditional cultures like the us: because women have less depression or because men have more, no difference in gender for, homogenous populations like univ student widows, bipolar disorder. Stress, anxiety, loneliness, discrimination all contribute to mental health problems sex difference emerges in adolescence. Female sadness, lethargy, crying: male turn to alcohol, problem of differential item functioning on assessment of instruments may muss men with depression, dif = when an item characterizes one sex more than the other.
