Depression and Anti-Social Behavior
Depression and Antisocial Behavior
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Depression and Antisocial Behavior
Emotions and genetic features work together to form personal identity and shape one’s actions. A person’s life from conception, infancy, childhood, and adolescence all have an impact on physical and emotional well-being. This paper will look at the diathesis-stress model, Dodge’s Social Information Processing and the factors that may affect depression and antisocial behaviors.
The diathesis-stress model talks about the relationship between potential causes of depression, and the degree to which people may be vulnerable to react to those causes. The diathesis-stress model suggests that people have predispositions for developing depression. The vulnerabilities are referred to as diatheses. Some people may have more of these diatheses for developing depression than other people. However, having a predisposition towards developing depression alone is not enough to trigger the illness. An individual's diathesis must interact with stressful life events in order to prompt the onset of the illness (Nemade, R. Ph.D., Reiss, N. S. Ph.D., Dombeck, M. Ph.D., 2007). Following the diathesis-stress model, the difference in genetic predisposition along with the different life experiences accounts for why some adolescents become antisocial when others do not.
Death or other losses such as job layoffs, relationship difficulties like divorce, normal milestones such as puberty, marriage, or retirement; alcoholism or drug abuse, neurochemical and hormonal imbalances, and infections can all be powerful enough to cause depressive symptoms in someone with a diathesis (Nemade et al, 2007). In some cases stress from the environment reacts with someone’s predisposition for depression resulting in a breakdown.
Dodge’s Social Information-Processing Model helps to explain why people who feel attacked react aggressively. The model describes the cognitive steps
Author’s Note
This research is being submitted on ….by…for.
Depression and Antisocial Behavior
Emotions and genetic features work together to form personal identity and shape one’s actions. A person’s life from conception, infancy, childhood, and adolescence all have an impact on physical and emotional well-being. This paper will look at the diathesis-stress model, Dodge’s Social Information Processing and the factors that may affect depression and antisocial behaviors.
The diathesis-stress model talks about the relationship between potential causes of depression, and the degree to which people may be vulnerable to react to those causes. The diathesis-stress model suggests that people have predispositions for developing depression. The vulnerabilities are referred to as diatheses. Some people may have more of these diatheses for developing depression than other people. However, having a predisposition towards developing depression alone is not enough to trigger the illness. An individual's diathesis must interact with stressful life events in order to prompt the onset of the illness (Nemade, R. Ph.D., Reiss, N. S. Ph.D., Dombeck, M. Ph.D., 2007). Following the diathesis-stress model, the difference in genetic predisposition along with the different life experiences accounts for why some adolescents become antisocial when others do not.
Death or other losses such as job layoffs, relationship difficulties like divorce, normal milestones such as puberty, marriage, or retirement; alcoholism or drug abuse, neurochemical and hormonal imbalances, and infections can all be powerful enough to cause depressive symptoms in someone with a diathesis (Nemade et al, 2007). In some cases stress from the environment reacts with someone’s predisposition for depression resulting in a breakdown.
Dodge’s Social Information-Processing Model helps to explain why people who feel attacked react aggressively. The model describes the cognitive steps
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