What makes depressed people feel worse? A cross-cultural replication

Miralles, Angeles; Caro, Isabel

doi:10.1016/0005-7967(83)90039-6

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“…Instead, people noted the importance of coping and the ability to deal with things in a ‘rational’ way. This theory concurs with Miralles et al . 's (1983, p. 487) findings where depression may be extinguished with ‘everyday’ normal activities such as ‘having a meal with people, having a drink’.…”

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‘Your good days and your bad days’ An exploration and consideration of how lay people conceptualize depression

Hogg

2011

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Depression remains a significant public health issue globally; 121 million people are affected by depression health education campaigns. Regardless of the prevalence of depression and recent health education campaigns to reduce the burden of depression, many people are still stigmatized and sometimes excluded from the society in which they live. Using qualitative research, the aim of this study was to explore lay people's perceptions and attitudes of mental disorder and in particular depression. A purposive sample of 22 lay people were each asked to read a case scenario which was then followed up by the researcher using open-ended questions to explore their knowledge and attitudes and beliefs relating to depression. The data was analysed using Braun & Clarke's strategy of thematic analysis. The results revealed that many of the participants were familiar with the concept of depression, either through their own experiences of the disorder or through knowing people with depression. The participants also drew from psychosocial explanations of depression and located depression as part of the human condition. The paper suggests that lay people's concepts of depression offer rich complex and diverse perspectives that enhance professional views and may lead to a greater understanding of uptake and acceptance of care for depression.

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‘Your good days and your bad days’ An exploration and consideration of how lay people conceptualize depression

Hogg

2011

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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“…Depressed individuals exhibit reduced social competence (Fisher-Beckfi eld and McFall 1982;Levendosky et al 1995), have fewer social interactions (Gotlib and Lee 1989), and fi nd these encounters less rewarding and enjoyable than healthy controls (Nezlek et al 2000). These negative interpersonal experiences, in turn, often cause depressed subjects to isolate themselves, thereby perpetuating their depression (Rippere 1980;Miralles et al 1983), and can precede and increase depressive symptomatology (Johnson et al 2000).…”

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Theory of mind in subjects with major depressive disorder: is it influenced by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation?

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The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

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“…A series of studies conducted by Rippere (1977a, 1977b, 1979, 1980a, 1980b, 1981) indicate that there appears to be a relatively stable consensus concerning how often people become depressed; what individuals do when they are depressed; how helpful ‘antidepressive’ behaviours tend to be and how often people engage in such activities; the duration of episodes of depression; the ‘truth’ of certain propositions of depression concerning how to manage and prevent depression; how depressed people usually are when they say that they are depressed; how feelings of depression may be exacerbated; etc. Rippere's findings have been replicated with Spanish speaking adults (Miralles, Caro, & Rippere, 1983; Caro, Miralles, & Rippere, 1983) and, whilst showing cultural differences, indicate a broad consensus in the way depression is conceptualized by lay people in Western European societies. Not only are lay beliefs consistent within Western culture, but research on lay beliefs suggests that there is a degree of continuity in the manner in which laypeople, currently depressed individuals, and health practitioners conceptualize depression (Furnham & Kuyken, 1991; Kuyken et al , 1992).…”

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Variability in lay perceptions of depression: A vignette study

2005

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This paper describes a study investigating lay perceptions of depression in terms of perceived severity. Students (N = 128) were presented with vignettes describing individuals with symptoms of depression based on DSM-IV. The descriptions were varied in terms of gender, social status, and a self-referent manner of communicating depressive symptomatology. Participants were asked to rate the degree to which vignette characters were thought to be depressed on a Likert-type scale. Results indicate that a non-self-referent style of communicating depressive symptoms by female vignette characters was seen as an indication of elevated levels of depression, and these findings are discussed with reference to the literature.

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What makes depressed people feel worse? A cross-cultural replication

Cited by 5 publications

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‘Your good days and your bad days’ An exploration and consideration of how lay people conceptualize depression

‘Your good days and your bad days’ An exploration and consideration of how lay people conceptualize depression

Theory of mind in subjects with major depressive disorder: is it influenced by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation?

Variability in lay perceptions of depression: A vignette study

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