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Cross-national associations between gender and mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

CONTEXT: Gender differences in mental disorders, including more anxiety and mood disorders among women and more externalizing disorders among men, are found consistently in epidemiological surveys. The gender roles hypothesis suggests that these differences narrow as the roles of women and men become more equal. OBJECTIVES: To study time-space (cohort-country) variation in gender differences in… Continue reading Cross-national associations between gender and mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

Smoking is Associated with Worse Mood on Stressful Days: Results from a National Diary Study

Many smokers report smoking because it helps them modulate their negative affect (NA). The stress induction model of smoking suggests, however, that smoking causes stress and concomitant NA. Empirical support for the stress induction model has primarily derived from retrospective reports and experimental manipulations with non-representative samples of smokers. Moreover, prior studies have typically not… Continue reading Smoking is Associated with Worse Mood on Stressful Days: Results from a National Diary Study