Gender and stress as predictors of psychopathology in male- and female-dominated graduate disciplines

Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references.Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.This study investigated the extent to which gender and stress contribute to depression, anxiety and anger in graduate students. Gender, discipline, year in graduate school, and stress as measured by the Inventory of College Students' Recent Life Experiences and the Perceived Stress Scale served as predictors of the Depression and Anxiety subscales of the Hopkins Symptom Checkiist and the Anger Control Scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. It was hypothesized that women graduate students in the male-dominated discipline would report the highest 'Levels of stress and s@-symptomatology. In an hierarchical regression analysis, stress predicted all three dependent measures, and income predicted anger and anxiety. The gender by stress interaction was significant for both depression and anxiety, with gender also predicting depression. All other predictors were nonsignificant, including the hypothesized gender by discipline interaction