title: The social causation of depression: a critique of the work of Brown and his colleagues.
abstract: Brown and his colleagues have presented evidence for the social origins of depression from results of 2 community surveys in Camberwell. This paper examines critically their methodology, conceptualization of variables, mode of argument and statistical techniques. Log-linear analysis of their published data fails to substantiate their differentiation of risk variables into vulnerability factors and provoking agents.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003158:Community Psychiatry; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008426:Maternal Deprivation