sociocultural E brown and Harris

Question 1

brown and Harris

Answer 1

women - vulnerability model.

Question 2

aim

Answer 2

2 inv how women social class and stressful life events would impact the development of depression

Question 3

Rm and ppls

Answer 3

women in south London
survey and semi S interviews

Question 4

procedure

Answer 4

1) interview - semi S - asked about depressive episodes, daily life, loss of loved one - rated in severity by researchers
2) survey measured their husbands occupation.

Question 4

results

Answer 4

8% = clinically depressed in last yr
90% = had adverse life event (abusive rs)
30% = no depression and had adverse life event
4 women had depression but did not experience adverse life event.
- protective factors = intimacy
- vulnerability factors = loss of mother
- provoking agents = no social support

working class women w children more likely to get depression than middle class women w children

Question 5

implications

Answer 5

working class - more exposure to VF’s and PA’s increasing D risk
social fastors (stress or SLE’s) = D
low social status = more exposure
high social status less exposure

Question 6

the results of the study show that

Answer 6

D is strongly linked to social and envio stressors (status and kids), with working class women being more vulnerable because of more exposure to VF’s and PA’s and less exposure to PF’s.

Question 7

this is because

Answer 7

PA’s(grief, acute and ongoing stress) amplify the psych strain caused by VF’s (loss of mother, unemployment)

Question 8

this implies that the vulnerability model

Answer 8

VF’s diminish one’s social support and when combined with acute stressors create a feedback loop of increased hopelessness, and worthlessness, especially in lower social class women to lack access to protective factors like economic stability and good relationships.

Question 9

eval

Answer 9

+: new focus
+: new research
+: good model supprot
+: large sample
+: credible - semi S = in-depth research
+: good qualitative data
-: only females sample bias - diff in males
-: self report (DC)
-:no cause and effect
-: dont look at bio and cog
-: social desirabiliy
-: low generalizability - south London, individualistic
+: high int validity
+: can be replicated