A key question remains unclear whether insomnia and somatic symptoms function as simple manifestations of depression or serve as mediating roles in the stress-depression relationship, particularly amo
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A key question remains unclear whether insomnia and somatic symptoms function as simple manifestations of depression or serve as mediating roles in the stress-depression relationship, particularly among university students.
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- Depression and somatic symptoms in Japanese and American college students: Negative mood regulation expectancies as a personality correlate (2017) · doi
This study clarified contradictory findings regarding whether depression and somatic symptoms are associated more strongly with each other in non-Western countries than in Western countries, by examining the relationships of the two variables with negative mood regulation expectancies (NMRE).
Keywords: western countries clarified contradictory regarding whether depression somatic symptoms associated strongly examining relationships variables negative - Depression as Measured by the Beck Depression Inventory-II Among Injecting Drug Users (2006) · doi
Somatic symptoms are endorsed more strongly than affective or cognitive symptoms of depression, suggesting a possible, but yet poorly defined, relationship between depressive symptomatology and drug use that centers on shared somatic symptomatology.
Keywords: somatic symptoms symptomatology endorsed strongly affective cognitive depression suggesting possible poorly defined relationship depressive drug - Perceived stress and depression in Chinese university students: a parallel mediation analysis examining the roles of insomnia and somatic symptoms (2026) · doi
A key question remains unclear whether insomnia and somatic symptoms function as simple manifestations of depression or serve as mediating roles in the stress-depression relationship, particularly among university students.
Keywords: depression question remains unclear whether insomnia somatic symptoms function simple manifestations serve mediating roles stress
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