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The fact that depression is more common among women than men has been thoroughly
documented, but it is important to go beyond this basic epidemiologic finding and ask why.
Empirically, this question translates first to asking under what conditions are women more
depressed, and whether there are conditions under which women are not more depressed than
men.
These conditions can then be examined for underlying commonalities related to etiologic
theories of depression.
In other words, the research question changes from “Why are women
more depressed than men?” to “What kinds of people are most likely to be depressed?”
What do they have in common, and what does this tell us about the nature of depression?
