Mp. Aranda et al., Stress, social support, and coping as predictors of depressive symptoms: Gender differences among Mexican Americans, SOC WORK RE, 25(1), 2001, pp. 37-48
The authors investigated stress, coping responses, and social support varia
bles as predictors of psychological distress among 171 Mexican American men
and women. The study tested hypotheses positing gender differences in the
rates of depressive symptoms as well as differences in factors associated w
ith depressive symptoms. Stepwise regression analyses were conducted for th
e total sample and separately for each gender. Data indicate that although
men and women did not differ significantly in terms of the rate of depressi
ve symptoms, they did differ in terms of the sources of stress and social s
upport associated with depression. The study underscores the need to examin
e sociocultural phenomenon in the stress-coping-outcome paradigm.