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Supreeyaporn N, Watson R, Damrongpanit S, Orchard F, Reynolds S, Jenkins PE. Factor structure and measurement invariance of the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire: a cross-cultural study among Thai and British adolescents. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2024; 33:1563-1572. [PMID: 37522960 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-023-02268-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 07/22/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
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The Mood and Feelings Questionnaire-child self-report (MFQ-C) is a widely used measure of child and adolescent depression. This study evaluated possible factor solutions and examined the measurement invariance of the MFQ-C as a prerequisite for its use in cross-cultural comparisons between Thai (N = 1272) and British samples (N = 1817) by using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA). The latent means of Thai and British samples were also examined. A five-factor structure of the MFQ-C was confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis. A partial scalar invariant model was supported, and thus latent means were compared, with British adolescents reporting significantly higher mean MFQ-C scores than Thai adolescents on four of the five factors (Vegetative Symptoms, Suicidality, Cognitive Symptoms, Agitated Distress). There was no difference for the Core Symptoms factor. The findings also suggest that the MFQ-C is a valid measure to assess depression in Thai and British adolescents and maybe useful in cross-cultural comparisons of adolescent depression.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nanthaka Supreeyaporn
- Department of Educational Foundations and Development, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
- Centre of Multiculturalism and Education Policy, Multidisciplinary Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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- Department of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Educational Foundations and Development, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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- School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK
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- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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Dandapat S. Is gender-based violence a confluence of culture? Empirical evidence from social media. PeerJ Comput Sci 2022; 8:e1051. [PMID: 36091979 PMCID: PMC9454862 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Gender-based violence (GBV) has been plaguing our society for long back. The severity of GBV has spurred research around understanding the causes and factors leading to GBV. Understanding factors and causes leading to GBV is helpful in planning and executing efficient policies to curb GBV. Past researches have claimed a country's culture to be one of the driving reasons behind GBV. The culture of a country consists of cultural norms, societal rules, gender-based stereotypes, and social taboos which provoke GBV. These claims are supported by theoretical or small-scale survey-based research that suffers from under-representation and biases. With the advent of social media and, more importantly, location-tagged social media, huge ethnographic data are available, creating a platform for many sociological research. In this article, we also utilize huge social media data to verify the claim of confluence between GBV and the culture of a country. We first curate GBV content from different countries by collecting a large amount of data from Twitter. In order to explore the relationship between a country's culture and GBV content, we performed correlation analyses between a country's culture and its GBV content. The correlation results are further re-validated using graph-based methods. Through the findings of this research, we observed that countries with similar cultures also show similarity in GBV content, thus reconfirming the relationship between GBV and culture.
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- Sourav Dandapat
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India
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Qi L, Zhang Y, Wang L, Wang R, Wu J, Zhou X, Chen J, Zhang S, Zhou Y, Zhang XY. Sex differences in psychotic and non-psychotic major depressive disorder in a Chinese Han population. J Affect Disord 2020; 268:55-60. [PMID: 32158007 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2019] [Revised: 01/15/2020] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Sex differences between psychotic depression (PD) and non-psychotic depression (NPD) have received little systematic study. This study was conducted to investigate sex difference in patients with psychotic and non-psychotic major depressive disorder in a Chinese Han population. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, a total of 1718 first-episode and drug-naïve outpatients with major depressive disorder were recruited. Demographic and clinical characteristics were collected. All subjects were rated on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD), Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAMA) and the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). RESULTS The prevalence of PD in female patients (10.97%) was higher than that in male patients (7.99%). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that female patients were older compared with male patients in NPD group, but there were no significant differences in demographic and clinical variables between female and male PD patients. Further, there were no sex differences in the scores of HAMD, HAMA and positive symptom subscale of PANSS in both PD and NPD groups. Two-way ANOVA showed that PD patients had significantly higher scores on the HAMD, HAMA and positive symptom subscale of PANSS than non-PD patients. However, there were no significant effects of sex and sex* subtypes. LIMITATIONS The main limitations are cross-sectional design and inability to control selection bias. CONCLUSIONS Our findings show significant differences in clinical profiles between PD and NPD patients; however, no sex difference has been observed in the either PD or NPD patients.
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- Ling Qi
- School of Health Science and Nursing, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, China
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- Research Center for Psychological and Health Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China; Affiliated Wuhan Mental Health Center,Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Xinzhou District Mental Health Center, Wuhan, China
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- School of Medicine and Health Management,Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology,Wuhan, China
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- Medical Department, Wuhan Youfu Hospital,Wuhan, China
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- Research Center for Psychological and Health Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
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- Research Center for Psychological and Health Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China; Affiliated Wuhan Mental Health Center,Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Research Center for Psychological and Health Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China; Affiliated Wuhan Mental Health Center,Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Research Center for Psychological and Health Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China; Affiliated Wuhan Mental Health Center,Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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Pop-Jordanova N. BDI in the Assessment of Depression in Different Medical Conditions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 38:103-111. [PMID: 28593888 DOI: 10.1515/prilozi-2017-0014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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As a common disorder, depression must be diagnosed not only in psychiatric but also in different medical settings, especially in patients with chronic diseases. Beck Depression Inventory is valuable and sensitive self-report inventory used worldwide for assessment depressive symptoms. In this research we present obtained scores of BDI in different group of disorders and we showed that BDI scores are related to the clinical condition, as well as with the age.
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- Nada Pop-Jordanova
- Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Bul. Krste Misirkov 2, 1000 Skopje
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Affiliation(s)
- Evelyn Cho
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Feng Y, Lin J, Guo Q, Su M, Cao T, Fan M, Zhang X, Si Y, Memon NH, Fang DZ. Longitudinal interactions of estrogen receptor alpha gene rs9340799 with social-environmental factors on depression in adolescents after Wenchuan earthquake. J Clin Neurosci 2017; 45:305-310. [PMID: 28890035 DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2017.08.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2017] [Accepted: 08/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Inconsistent relationships were reported between rs9340799 on estrogen receptor alpha gene (ESR1) and depression in previous studies. The present study was to explore the longitudinal changes of prevalence and severity of depression in 439 Chinese Han adolescents with different genotypes of ESR1 rs9340799 at 6, 12 and 18months after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Social-environmental factors were collected by questionnaires from 465 high school students. Variants of rs9340799 were genotyped by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analyses and verified by DNA sequencing. Depression symptoms were assessed by Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The results showed the female AA homozygotes had higher prevalence of depression at 12months and higher BDI scores at 18months than the female G allele carriers. Significantly decreased prevalence of depression was observed only in the female AA homozygotes at 18months when compared with that at 6 or 12 months. Consecutive decreases in BDI scores were observed only in the female AA homozygotes. The AA genotype was one of the risk factors at 12months and predictors of BDI scores at 18months. These results firstly suggest different interactions may occur in a gender and time dependent manner among rs9340799 and other potential factors of depression or predictors of its severity, and influence the development and natural rehabilitation of depression.
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- Yue Feng
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China.
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Configural and scalar invariance of the center for epidemiologic studies depression scale in Egypt and Canada: Differential symptom emphasis across cultures and genders. Psychiatry Res 2017; 250:244-252. [PMID: 28167439 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.01.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2016] [Revised: 12/02/2016] [Accepted: 01/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Depression is a significant contributor of global disease burden. Previous studies have revealed cross-cultural and gender differences in the presentation of depressive symptoms. Using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D), the present study examined differences in self-reported somatic, negative affective, and anhedonia symptoms of depression among Egyptian and Canadian university students. METHODS A total of 338 university students completed study questionnaires from two major universities in Egypt (n=152) and Canada (n=186). Symptom domains were calculated based on the 14-item model of the CES-D. RESULTS We found significant culture by gender interactions of total CES-D scores, wherein Egyptian females reported higher scores compared to their Canadian and Egyptian male counterparts. LIMITATIONS Limitations include using analogue student samples and using only one self-report measure to examine different depressive symptom domains. CONCLUSIONS Findings of this study provided support that males and females may differentially report depressive symptoms across cultures. Implications of these results are further discussed.
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