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Life Events, Vulnerability and Onset of Depression: Some Refinements
Abstract
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 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).”
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Metadata
- 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
- 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
- Locations
- The British Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › 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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