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Gender and depression in Anglo-Jewry
Author(s): Loewenthal, Kate Miriam; Goldblatt, Vivienne; Gorton, Tessa; Lubitsch, Guy
Date: 1995
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Mental Health, Jewish Women, Haredi / Strictly Orthodox Jews, Orthodox Judaism, Surveys
Abstract: This study found similar prevalence of case depression among men as among women in a sample of 339 Jews affiliated to orthodox synagogues (157 men and 182 women). There were significant gender differences in several social–situational factors and symptoms, mostly in the direction that would suggest that case depression would be higher among women than among men. That this was not so is suggested to be the result of the cultural milieu: social factors that have been found to be associated with depression in other groups of people did not function as risk or vulnerability factors among the Jews studied. In particular, the evidence indicates the importance of specific cultural–religious values in contributing towards the prevalences that were observed. These values included the esteem attached to women's central role in family management and the low use of alcohol and suicide as escape routes from depression.
The social circumstances of anxiety and its symptoms among Anglo-Jews
Author(s): Loewenthal, Kate Miriam; Goldblatt, Vivienne; Gorton, Tessa; Lubitsch, Guy; Bicknell, Helen; Fellowes, Deborah; Sowden, Amanda
Date: 1997
Topics: Haredi / Strictly Orthodox Jews, Main Topic: Other, Mental Health, Jewish Women, Gender, Psychology/Psychiatry
Abstract: In this community study of orthodox-affiliated Jews in London the social circumstances of anxiety were examined. By contrast with previous work on women in London, danger and early adversity bore only a weak relationship with anxiety in this sample. Eventfulness had the strongest relationship with anxiety of all the circumstances examined. Women were more likely to suffer from borderline anxiety than were men, but there were no gender differences in case anxiety. Women had more eventful lives than men but this could not solely account for gender differences in anxiety. Findings suggest the importance of cultural factors in aetiology.