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Vulnerability Factors and Depression in Men

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Alec Roy
Alec Roy*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto, M5T 1R8, Canada
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Summary

In a matched controlled study of 71 depressed men, parental loss before 17 years, poor marriage, and unemployment were found to be vulnerability factors associated with depression in men.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 138 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 75 - 77
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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