What explanations are offered for consistent finding

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Sourced from the stated research gap and abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 1981 and 2014, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 25 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Sex differences in depressive symptom expression and help-seeking among college students (1981) · Sex Roles · doi

  There is a lack of understanding of sex differences in depressive symptom expression and help-seeking among college students. Previous studies have not adequately addressed the question of whether sex differences in degree of depression are due entirely to accentuations of sex-role-stereotyped responding.

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  Keywords: there lack understanding sex differences depressive symptom expression
• Cognitive-behavioural therapy with a feminist orientation: A perspective for therapy with depressed women. (1995) · Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne · cited 16× · doi

  Can it be assumed that the same risk factors underlie gender differences regardless of clinical severity? Nolen-Hoeksema (1990) argues that gender differences should be studied at all levels of severity because no matter how you define depression, after puberty more women are depressed, and even moderate levels of depression significantly impair functioning.

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  Keywords: gender differences severity levels depression assumed risk factors underlie regardless clinical nolen hoeksema argues studied
• Depression in Men: Issues for Practice and Research (2014) · Issues in Mental Health Nursing · cited 9× · doi

  What explanations are offered for consistent finding of gender differences in rates of depression, not only in the US worldwide? The origins of these gender differences in prevalence rates are not well understood although various ideas have been proposed to explain how they arise.

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  Keywords: gender differences rates explanations offered consistent finding depression worldwide origins prevalence well understood various ideas

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