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Thus, the demonstrated gender difference in distress levels in our study might be pregnancy-specific.
Findings suggest that the higher mean level of psychological distress observed in women reflects a true difference in distress and is unlikely to be gender-biased.
In conclusion, findings from this study suggest that the K6 is a gender-neutral scale and that the higher mean level of psychological distress observed in women may reflect a true gender difference in distress.
Our finding of no difference in distress between women with and without children reflects the fact that distress measures depressive symptoms, and the mere presence (or absence) of children in the household has not been shown in the literature to be a strong predictor of depression in women.
Jain and colleagues [ 40], in a sample of students reporting 'distress', demonstrated that training in mindfulness meditation led to greater falls in rumination but no there was no post-intervention difference in distress levels compared with a relaxation training control group; and that rumination partially mediated mindfulness meditation's effects on reducing distress.
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Group differences in distress (i.e., perceived stress and depressive symptoms) may contribute to cessation disparities.
The cross-national differences in distress scores were hypothesized to have originated from the American culture being more socially demanding with respect to interpersonal competence than the Dutch, and from the perceived threats and related cognitive appraisals that are associated with such demands.
Objective: We examined differences in distress (i.e., depression, anxiety, and somatisation) and hopelessness (e.g., suicide ideation) among parents of congenital heart disease (CHD) children (PCCHD, n=1092), parents of children with other diseases (PCOD, n=112), and parents of healthy children (PHC, n=293).
The results demonstrate that: (1) there are persistently higher levels of depressive symptoms among black women relative to white women throughout later life; (2) physical health and socioeconomic status account for much of the racial gap in depressive symptoms; and (3) marital status moderates race differences in distress.
Disorder scores of people in the 3 samples are included in Table 2. Significant differences in distress were found between samples (F = 330.9, p<0.001): Post-hoc tests revealed the ADC sample (33.2) had significantly higher K-10 scores than the IC sample (26.1) who, in turn, had significantly higher K-10 scores than the NS sample (21.1).
These differences in distress patterns warrant additional research.
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