In:
Psychological Reports, SAGE Publications, Vol. 120, No. 4 ( 2017-08), p. 639-649
Abstract:
Mental health studies show that women are likely to score higher on subjective well-being and higher on depression than men. To verify this, the present study collected a sample of 5648 undergraduates in 55 universities in China. Results showed that women reported higher optimism, gratitude, subjective well-being, and depression than men, and that optimism and gratitude mediated the relationship between gender and mental health (subjective well-being and depression). By its implication, women were more likely to be optimistic and grateful, and as such they tended to experience higher subjective well-being and depression simultaneously. This also implies that gender differences on mental health could also be a dispositional issue as well as a socialization one.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0033-2941
,
1558-691X
DOI:
10.1177/0033294117701136
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2017
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2066930-6
SSG:
5,2
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