DEPRESSION

Gender, Ethnicity, Self-Esteem, Parental Psychological Control and Emerging Adult Depression

Gender, Ethnicity, Self-Esteem, Parental Psychological Control and Emerging Adult Depression

The study is related to depression which further focuses on various variables that include gender, ethnicity, self-esteem and parental psychological control. Depression is an affective disorder accompanying mankind throughout the history. In pathological sense, there is presence of sadness, pessimism, low self-esteem, often seen and can be combined with each other. Depression is a word often which is used to describe our feelings. Being temporarily depressed is common as it is a natural and is usually an understandable reaction in different life situations. Moreover, depression influences an individual when sadness becomes deeper and persistent, and occurs daily for at least two weeks.

For that reason, it is imperative and essential to differentiate the factors which affect depression in emerging adults. This particular study focuses on four important aspects that gender, ethnicity, self-esteem and parental psychological control, which is being discussed in relation depression in emerging adults. Thus, the results of these above variables will facilitate practitioners, teachers and counselors, who are interested in finding ways to prevent and change depression among emerging adults.

Gender and Depression

A growing concern in producing good quality scientific information that invariably associates to a demand for greater methodological rigor in research has become evident that there is still much to discover and understand about the universe of mental disorders, and among these, the various forms of depression among the emerging adults. Depression, so this probably universal in various populations around the world and recorded since ancient times, has been evaluated in many epidemiological studies, to be approximately twice as prevalent in women as in men (Cooper, 2011).

Women are affected by major depression twice as many men. Major depression can strike at any age even in childhood, in youth and adulthood. The preponderance of women, even though less abruptly, also seems to occur in other forms of depressive manifestations, such as minor depression among the emerging adults. Moreover, as there are exceptions to the generalization of these findings; the gender differences determined by possibly are not present in some subpopulations, for example, in American African (Conley & Rudolph, 2009). There are also disputes between different studies for major depression among the emerging adults, as, for example, the question of variations are true differences in prevalence between males and females, according to age considered: are literature reports that such differences exist only between puberty and fifth decade, and others, in contrast, argue that the ratio of two women to one man remains throughout life. The depression among the emerging adults also seems to be different according to gender, with men showing more heart disease and diabetes and women, most migraines and thyroid dysfunction (Carbonell, Reinherz & Beardslee, 2005).

Ethnicity and Depression

Major depression among the emerging adults is a serious disorder that affects approximately 5% each year of the adult population. Unlike a normal feeling of sadness, loss, or a transient state in a bad mood, major depression among the emerging adults is persistent ...