Effects of Depression on Social Support in a Community Sample of Women

Abstract

(from the introduction and overview) serves to test the role of depression in having an impact on social support resources / point out that such a concern is characteristic of clinical studies of depressed patients, whereas community surveys of normal populations generally view social support as an antecedent to depressive symptoms /// report data from a longitudinal study of over 700 women designed to study the health effects of the Three Mile Island accident / suggest that an episode of depression is associated with a deterioration of marital support over time, both in terms of perceived levels of support and the actual relationship itself (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)