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Life Events, Vulnerability and Onset of Depression: Some Refinements

Brown, G. W., Bifulco, A., Harris, T. O.·1987·British Journal of Psychiatry
DOI 10.1192/bjp.150.1.30
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A prospective study of 400 largely working-class women with children living at home has once again demonstrated the major importance of long-term severe threatening life events in provoking caseness of depression. However, it again shows that only about one out of five women experiencing such an event go on to develop depression at a case level. This paper demonstrates that more sensitive characterisation of severe events can greatly increase the size of this association. This is done both by improving the description of the event itself and by taking into account various ways in which the event can ‘match’ characteristics of the women present at the first interview, well before the occurrence of the event or any onset of depression.

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  • Recent psychosocial adversity (life events) often triggers the timing of depression onset, mainly in the context of earlier psychosocial or familial vulnerability.

    “recent psychosocial adversity (life-events) often plays a triggering role in timing the onset of depression, but mainly in the context earlier psychosocial or familial vulnerability (Brown et al., 1987;Brown et al., 1995;Farmer et al., 2003).”

    From Affective Cognition and its Disruption in Mood Disorders (2011) · cites this paper as Brown et al., 1987

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Authors
Brown, G. W., Bifulco, A., & Harris, T. O.
Affiliations
University of London (GB)
ORCID
Bifulco, A.
Venue
British Journal of Psychiatry
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Published
1987-01
Volume
150
Issue
1
Pages
30-42
ISSN
  • 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
  • 1472-1465
DOI
10.1192/bjp.150.1.30
OpenAlex
W2034534819
Cited by
428
References
37
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 15
FWCI
25.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 11324 d)
Locations
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
depression onset, life events, depression vulnerability, working-class women, women with children, prospective study
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Depressive Disorder, Female, Health, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Life Change Events, Mothers, Prospective Studies, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Risk Factors, Socioeconomic Factors

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