Die Subjektiewe Ervaring Van Depressie Onder Suid-Afrikaanse Vroue in ’n Lae-Inkomste Gemeenskap

Lourens, Marleen; Kruger, Lou‐Marié

doi:10.15270/49-2-68

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“…Thus, anger emerged as a prominent feature of depression amongst the women who partook in the current study, and also in a number of other similar South African studies (Kruger et al, in press;Lochner, 1999;Lourens & Kruger, 2013;Taylor, 2011). Despite these findings, as well as those of other researchers and clinicians who acknowledge "a considerable relationship between anger and depression" (J.…”

Section: Angersupporting

confidence: 84%

“…Overall, loneliness constituted a significant theme amongst the women who participated in this study, as well as in the similar studies by Taylor (2011) and Kruger and Lourens (2013). Loneliness was also one of the most prominent findings in Herbst's (2006) research regarding HIV-infected low-income coloured mothers living in the Western Cape region of South Africa.…”

Section: Lonelinesssupporting

confidence: 79%

“…Similar to the study presented here, a number of other researchers (e.g. see Appelt, 2006;de Villiers, 2011;Kruger et al, in press;Lochner, 1999;Lourens & Kruger, 2013;Spies, 2001;Storkey, 2006;Taylor, 2011) have worked under Professor Kruger's supervision to complete Honours, Masters and Doctoral dissertations based on interviews with low-income women from various communities in the Western Cape…”

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confidence: 53%

“…Supporting these findings, Faure and Loxton (2003), Theron (2005), Taylor (2011), and Kruger and Lourens (2013) all found that most South African women who were diagnosed with depression were also found to have anxiety disorders. These findings are not unique to this study or to the South African context in general.…”

Section: Anxietymentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Researchers Taylor (2011) and Lourens and Kruger (2013) Phenomenological studies typically contain a large amount of complicated data (Lester, 1999). I have tried to present the findings in a way that is accessible and…”

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confidence: 99%

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Informed by recent feminist critiques of the notion of depression, we explored how a group of South African low-income mothers who have been diagnosed with depression subjectively describe and explain their psychological distress. Working within a feminist materialist-discursive framework, we focused both on the explicit content of what the women were saying and on the implicit or underlying discourses that informed their narratives. Our findings suggest that respondents often subjectively experienced their psychological distress as anger, which was also articulated in violence directed at their children. This suggests that not only does the diagnosis of depression serve to medicalize the distress of participants, but it may simultaneously serve to obscure their anger at having to mother in adverse conditions. In exploring reasons for their anger, we found that participants were frustrated with trying to live up to idealized notions of motherhood in impoverished contexts.

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“You Get Angry Inside Yourself”: Low-Income Adolescent South African Girls’ Subjective Experience of Depression

Meyer

Kruger

2015

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Informed by the feminist social constructionist approach this study aimed at exploring the subjective experiences of depression of lowincome South African adolescent girls. Participants in this study (girls between the ages of 12 and 14) live in a semi-rural low-income coloured community in the Western Cape. Participants were familiar with the concept of depression, but it seemed that for them the central emotion associated with depression was anger, which often manifested in destructive behaviours. Furthermore, participants seemed to construct depression as a relational problem, suggesting that psychotherapy may be indicated as an important intervention strategy.

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Die Subjektiewe Ervaring Van Depressie Onder Suid-Afrikaanse Vroue in ’n Lae-Inkomste Gemeenskap

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

A Feminist Phenomenological Description of Depression in Low-income South African Women

A Feminist Phenomenological Description of Depression in Low-income South African Women

The melancholy of murderous mothers: Depression and the medicalization of women’s anger

“You Get Angry Inside Yourself”: Low-Income Adolescent South African Girls’ Subjective Experience of Depression

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