The role of perceptions of early experiences and current marital context in men's depressive symptomatology.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Recent years have shown a marked growth in the literature examining the interpersonal context of depression. One area about which relatively little is known, however, concerns the relational correlates of depression in men. The present study examined the relationship between men's recollections of childhood experiences, their perceptions of their current marital relationship, and self-reported depressive symptomatology. A community sample of men completed the following self-report measures: (1) the Beck Depression Inventory; (2) the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire; (3) the Conflict-Tactics Scale (modified version); (4) the Revised Adult Attachment Scale; (5) the Level of Expressed Emotion scale (tolerance subscale). Analyses showed that self-reported childhood parental rejection, childhood physical abuse, insecure adult attachment and spousal intolerance were all positively correlated with self-reported depressive symptoms at the zero-order level. There was no evidence of moderating relationships between childhood and adulthood variables in predicting depressive symptoms. Path analysis supported the mediating hypothesis that reported maternal rejection in childhood contributes to reported attachment difficulties in adulthood, which are subsequently related to reported depression levels. In contrast, reported paternal rejection was found to be directly associated with reported depressive symptoms in adulthood. The findings underscore the importance of the interpersonal context in understanding men's emotional functioning.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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