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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1974) 125: 406-410. doi: 10.1192/bjp.125.4.406
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How Depressives View the Significance of Life Events

ARTHUR P. SCHLESS M.D.1, L. SCHWARTZ 2, CHRISTOPHER GOETZ 3, and J. MENDELS M.D.4

1 Staff Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania and Veterans Administration Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
2 Medical Student, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania and Veterans Administration Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
3 Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania and Veterans Administration Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
4 Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania and Veterans Administration Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.

Neurotic depressed in-patients were found to view life events as uniformly more stressful than a comparison group of non-depressed subjects. The weights ascribed to the 43 individual life events which were examined were independent of patient's age, sex, severity of depression, whether he had experienced the event or not, and symptomatic improvement.

Submitted on November 12, 1973




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