Daily life with depressive symptoms: Gender differences in adolescents' everyday emotional experiences |
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| Institution: | 1. From the Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children''s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;2. Institutional Centers for Clinical and Translational Research, Boston Children''s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;3. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;4. Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, Indiana;5. Division of Endocrinology, Seattle Children''s Hospital, Seattle, Washington;6. Division of Endocrinology and Center for Biobehavioral Health, Nationwide Children''s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio;7. Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Cook Children''s Medical Center, Fort Worth, Texas.;1. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, School of Psycholog, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China;2. School of Public Finance & Public Administration, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, China;3. Research Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, United States |
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| Abstract: | Depression is a prevalent and debilitating illness facing many adolescents, especially adolescent girls, whose risk for this disorder is approximately twice that of boys. Many studies have identified mechanisms that place girls at higher risk for depression during adolescence. Few, however, have examined differences in the everyday emotional experiences of boys and girls with varying levels of depressive symptoms. Using the Experience Sampling Method, this study investigated the roles of gender and depressive symptomatology in the emotional experiences of a community sample of youth (11–18 year-olds) from the Sloan 500 Family Study. Females with higher levels of depressive symptoms were more likely than females with fewer depressive symptoms and all males to experience strong negative emotions and to attribute the cause of these emotions to other people. These results suggest that emotional reactivity in interpersonal contexts is especially important to understand gender differences in the daily experience of depressive symptoms. |
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| Keywords: | Depression Emotion Gender differences Daily experiences |
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