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Vulnerability Factors and Depression in Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Alec Roy
Alec Roy*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Canada; Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto M5T 1R8, Canada; The Maudsley Hospital, London SE5
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Summary

A matched controlled study of 84 depressed women confirms the findings of Brown et al, that loss of mother before 11, three or more children at home under 14 years of age, lack of a confiding marital relationship and lack of employment may be vulnerability factors predisposing to depression in working-class women.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 133 , Issue 2 , August 1978 , pp. 106 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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