PSYC 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Are there sex differences in depression? (cont. : coping (cont): There might be a biological explanation for the sex diferences in social support. In contrast to males who exhibit fight or flight response to stress, females exhibit tend and befriend responses to stress. This response among females is hypothesized to have emerged from evolutionary pressures and to be under the control of oxytocin: rumination: private reflection and deliberation over ones problems. Rumination is a mediator between sex and depression. 8-10 show bruding which is the most predictive of depression. Nolen: when we ruminate it interferes with our problem solving abilities. Those who ruminate are more likely to have pessimistic attributions. When people engage in rumination they show more negative affect. Nolen maintains that females who experience higher levels of depression than males because they are more likely to ruminate about negative events than males.
