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Help me study for my Psychology class. I’m stuck and don’t understand.
This week: Create a Research Question.
Does Gender Affect Depression in Individuals?

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Gender & Depression
Research Question:
Does Gender Affect Depression in Individuals?
Several studies have concluded that gender plays a critical role in the prevalence of
depressive disorders. According to Kuehner (147), women have a prevalence rate twice to that
of men for depression. In the United, for instance, women are about 66% likely to be depressed
than men. The national psychiatric morbidity survey done in Britain in2014, exhibited the same
in which women are at a higher risk of depression compared to men Kuehner (146). Gender
difference in depression appears the most during the reproductive years.
It is worth asking oneself why depression is more prevalent in women than in men. The
difference must be associated with biologi...
