One Risk Factor of Depression Disorder in Chinese Women

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S455-S455
Author(s):  
Y. Zhang ◽  
L. Feihu ◽  
D. Zunxiao ◽  
S. Jianguo ◽  
W. Qiangju
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
The World

BackgroundThe prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) is higher in those with the unemployed and those with low social status. Most of the available data comes from studies in developed countries, and these findings may not extrapolate to developing countries. However, the extent of unemployed status cause MDD is unclear. This study seeks to determine whether depressive disorder is associated with unemployment and to further investigate the relationship between occupation, and social class in Han Chinese women with MDD.MethodData came from Oxford and VCU Experimental Research on Genetic Epidemiology (CONVERGE) study of MDD (6017 cases, age between 30 and 60; 5983 controls, age between 40 and 60). DSM-IV depressive and anxiety disorders were assessed using the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview. All subjects were interviewed using a computerized assessment system. All interviewers were trained by the CONVERGE team for a minimum of one week. The interview includes assessment of psychopathology, demographic and personal characteristics, and psychosocial functioning.ResultsThe odds ratio (OR) between employment and MDD is 0.69. An OR of less than one is protective. Lower social class is not associated with an increase in the number of episodes, or with increased rates of comorbidity with anxiety disorders.ConclusionThis study suggests that in Han Chinese women, employment is positive protect factor to MDD. Lower social status and unemployment increases the risk and severity of MDD. In China, lower socioeconomic position is associated with increased rates of MDD, as it is elsewhere in the world.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Associations of Educational Attainment, Occupation, Social Class and Major Depressive Disorder among Han Chinese Women

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. e86674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianguo Shi ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Feihu Liu ◽  
Yajuan Li ◽  
Junhui Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Major Depressive

scholarly journals Childhood and adulthood socio-economic position and midlife depressive and anxiety disorders

2008 ◽  
Vol 192 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Stansfeld ◽  
Charlotte Clark ◽  
Bryan Rodgers ◽  
Tanya Caldwell ◽  
Chris Power
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Psychological Disorders ◽  
Clinical Interview ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Registrar General ◽  
Economic Position

SummaryThis paper investigates how childhood socio-economic position influences the risk for midlife depressive and anxiety disorders at 45 years of age, assessed by the Clinical Interview Schedule in 9377 participants of the 1958 British Birth Cohort. Socio-economic position was measured by Registrar General Social Class in childhood and adulthood. The association of paternal manual socio-economic position with any diagnosis at 45 years of age was accounted for after adjustment for adult socio-economic position. Manual socio-economic position in women at 42 years of age was associated with midlife depressive disorder and any diagnosis; these associations were diminished by adjustment for childhood psychological disorders. Effects of childhood socio-economic position on adult depressive disorders may be mediated through adult socio-economic position.

scholarly journals Polygenic risk for severe psychopathology among Europeans is associated with major depressive disorder in Han Chinese women

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 777-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Edwards ◽  
A. R. Docherty ◽  
A. Moscati ◽  
T. B. Bigdeli ◽  
R. E. Peterson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Clinical Characteristics ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Genetic Liability ◽  
Polygenic Risk ◽  
Shared Genetic

BackgroundPrevious studies have demonstrated that several major psychiatric disorders are influenced by shared genetic factors. This shared liability may influence clinical features of a given disorder (e.g. severity, age at onset). However, findings have largely been limited to European samples; little is known about the consistency of shared genetic liability across ethnicities.MethodThe relationship between polygenic risk for several major psychiatric diagnoses and major depressive disorder (MDD) was examined in a sample of unrelated Han Chinese women. Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) were generated using European discovery samples and tested in the China, Oxford, and VCU Experimental Research on Genetic Epidemiology [CONVERGE (maximumN= 10 502)], a sample ascertained for recurrent MDD. Genetic correlations between discovery phenotypes and MDD were also assessed. In addition, within-case characteristics were examined.ResultsEuropean-based polygenic risk for several major psychiatric disorder phenotypes was significantly associated with the MDD case status in CONVERGE. Risk for clinically significant indicators (neuroticism and subjective well-being) was also associated with case–control status. The variance accounted for by PRS for both psychopathology and for well-being was similar to estimates reported for within-ethnicity comparisons in European samples. However, European-based PRS were largely unassociated with CONVERGE family history, clinical characteristics, or comorbidity.ConclusionsThe shared genetic liability across severe forms of psychopathology is largely consistent across European and Han Chinese ethnicities, with little attenuation of genetic signal relative to within-ethnicity analyses. The overall absence of associations between PRS for other disorders and within-MDD variation suggests that clinical characteristics of MDD may arise due to contributions from ethnicity-specific factors and/or pathoplasticity.

scholarly journals The Genetic Architecture of Major Depressive Disorder in Han Chinese Women

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roseann E. Peterson ◽  
Na Cai ◽  
Tim B. Bigdeli ◽  
Yihan Li ◽  
Mark Reimers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Genetic Architecture ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Major Depressive

INVESTIGATION OF THE GENETIC OVERLAP BETWEEN MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER AND BODY MASS INDEX IN HAN CHINESE WOMEN

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. S976
Author(s):  
Roseann Peterson ◽  
Tim Bigdeli ◽  
Hanna van Loo ◽  
Bradley Webb ◽  
Jonathan Flint ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Genetic Overlap

Social class, social status, and the pursuit of happiness

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manana Mesropian ◽  
Michael W. Kraus ◽  
Cameron Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness

Doing Bodhisattva’s Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-32
Author(s):  
Le Hoang Anh Thu
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
The Social

This paper explores the charitable work of Buddhist women who work as petty traders in Hồ Chí Minh City. By focusing on the social interaction between givers and recipients, it examines the traders’ class identity, their perception of social stratification, and their relationship with the state. Charitable work reveals the petty traders’ negotiations with the state and with other social groups to define their moral and social status in Vietnam’s society. These negotiations contribute to their self-identification as a moral social class and to their perception of trade as ethical labor.

Basic Andragogy-Oriented Strategies and Communication in Online Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-356
Author(s):  
Anca Sîrbu
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Rapid Onset ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The World

AbstractWith the rapid onset of an unprecedented lifestyle due to the new coronavirus COVID-19 the world academic scene was forced to reform and adapt to the novel circumstances. Although online education cannot be regarded as a groundbreaking endeavour anymore in the21st century, its current character of exclusivity calls for deeper understanding of, and a sharper focus on the “end-consumer” thereof as well as more cautious procedures to be exercised while teaching. While millennials are no longer thought of as being born with a silver spoon in their mouth but with an iPad or any sort of device in their hand (irrespective of their social status), adults are more hesitant when coerced to alter course unexpectedly and turn to new methods of attaining their learning goals. This is why proper communicative approaches need to be thoroughly considered by online instructors. This article aims at presenting teachers with a set of strategies to employ when the beneficiaries of online academic education are adult learners.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document