Research Question: Depression according to the Cross-cultural and Behavioural Perspectives
Mariam Magdalena Diallo
Professor: Ms. Samineh Izedi
I- Introduction:
Depression is an illness that affects the psyche, the mind the soul and the physical aspects of the individual. Its symptoms are various and differ from one another. Through the Behavioural and Cross Cultural Perspectives within psychology’s theories clearly give a detailed explanation of this phenomenon.
This essay will examine the way in which depression is viewed according to the cross cultural perspective that states that depressions are most likely to differ when looking at different races or ethnicities. This essay will also look at how behavioural factors such as the environment affect someone's experience of depression.
II- Depression:
Depression is an illness that involves the mood, thoughts, and the body that leads the depressed individual to be affected on many levels, such as its usual needs which are to eat, to drink and to sleep, also the one feels about his self. Depression being a disorder is not a “passing blue mood”. Individuals affected by this disorder cannot get out of depression without proper and adequate medication. Indeed without a medication followed the disorder can lat for more than a year.
Depression risk factors are: a person’s sex it is said in multiple studies that women are more likely to get depressed because of many variables such as the post maternal period and other. The age is also an important variable that leads individuals to get depressed as their physical aspects, social status changes, the transitional phase by which they are going through might accentuate symp ...