Depression

Study: Stereotypes prevail in media coverage

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 18th, 2003

A new analysis of the media's coverage of depression, antidepressant drugs, and related issues over the past 15 years shows a significant shift in how newspapers and magazines portray mental health problems.

Instead of describing depressive illnesses in terms of specific symptoms and medical terms, as they did when the era of Prozac began in the late 1980s, the printed news media are now far more likely to depict women's mental issues in relation to gender-stereotyped roles, such as marriage, motherhood, and menopause. But during the same time, descriptions of depression in men have not shifted in the same way.

The new findings, made by researchers...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2003-09-18)

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