Open AccessDo Life Events and Social Support Vary across Depressive Disorders?
Author(s) -
Savitha Soman,
Smitha Bhat,
KS Latha,
Samir Kumar Praharaj
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.207334
Subject(s) - social support , psychology , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , major depressive disorder , psychiatry , cognition , psychotherapist , economics , macroeconomics
Social support and life events moderate the expression of depression though studies have shown contradictory results. The objective was to study the stressful life events and perceived social support in patients with adjustment disorder, first-episode depression, and recurrent depressive disorder (RDD).