The gender difference in depressive prevalence is due to high prevalence of somatic depression among women who do not have depressed relatives

Given that several studies have found the gender difference in depression to be rooted in psychosocial forces and others have shown the difference to be due to a gender difference in somatic depression, we compared the gender difference in somatic depression among respondents who reported no relative depressed with that of all other depressed respondents. Respondents in a representative sample from the Zurich study who met criteria for somatic...