Gender and reporting differences in measures of depression.

135 female and 75 male undergraduates (aged 18–30 yrs) responded to the Beck Depression Inventory and to 9 items assessing depression from the Hopkins Symptom Checklist. The hypothesis was explored that males particularly would endorse test items in a less "depressed" direction when presented explicitly as constituting a test of depression, but would endorse more depressive content when items were presented in a context not portrayed as measuring depression. Some support was obtained for the view that males may approach and respond differently to depression inventories compared to females. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)