Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-0487
+44 1478 350008
ISSN: 2161-0487
+44 1478 350008
Mahnaz Fallahi Khesht Masjedi
Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Psychol Psychother
Symptoms of depression is different between the genders. Men shows behaviors such as irritability, restlessness, difficulty in concentrating and aggression when they are depression instead of natural sorrow. Sleep disturbance is a common symptom of depression in men. Men are less likely to visit a doctor and unwittingly they replace other emotions like anger with sadness. This seems to be "feminine" knowing that suffering depression, depressed men may be valid. Men's disease is not diagnosed and treated! A sample of 191 adolescents, including 108 were male and 83 of girls aged 13 to 19 years of depressed psychiatric were diagnosed. Data collected for 10 years from 2004 to 2014 and their depressive symptoms by the Beck Depression Inventory II were evaluated. Depressed girls felt sadness, guilt, punishment, worthlessness, low energy and fatigue or asthenia more vulnerable than boys to have symptoms such as irritability, depression and suicidal thoughts or desires to reduce their pleasure respectively. The results of t-test showed that the difference between the total scores of boys and girls with depressive disorder (16.93) is significant at 0.001. F values for the components of feeling sad (58.13), hatred of self (12.38), suicidal thoughts or desires (12.97), restlessness (17.35) and irritability (46. 41) in the 0.001 was significant. Experiences of depression in boys and girls varied, according to gender roles.
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