PSYC 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Major Depressive Disorder, Perseveration, Echolalia
23 Sep 2018
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Sociocultural theorists propose that unipolar depression is greatly influenced by the social context that surrounds people. This belief is supported by the finding that depression is often triggered by outside stressors. The connection between declining social rewards and depression (cid:523)as discussed by the behaviorists(cid:524) is a two-way street. Consistent with these findings, depression has been tied repeatedly to the unavailability of social support, such as that found in a happy marriage. People who are separated or divorced display three times the. (igh correlation between level of marital conflict and degree of depression rate of married persons sadness among depressed patients. People who are isolated and without intimacy are particularly likely to become depressed in times of stress. People with a bipolar disorder experience both the lows of depression and the highs of mania. Many describe their lives as an emotional roller coaster. People in a state of mania typically experiences dramatic and inappropriate rises (cid:523)deviance(cid:524) in mood.
