Why the study?
Sociodemographic and lifestyle factors, childhood adversities, and personality contribute to depression, but few studies have examined all these aspects concomitantly across different populations.
Do psychological variables explain more variance in depression scores than sociodemographic and lifestyle factors across different populations?
Do psychological variables explain more variance in depression scores than sociodemographic and lifestyle factors across different populations?
Psychological factors such as childhood trauma, neuroticism, and low resilience are stronger predictors of depression severity than sociodemographic and lifestyle factors across different populations, including patients with cardiovascular disease.
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Highlights trauma and personality over lifestyle factors in depression; leaves open causal and interventional implications.
Schneider et al. (2021) studied this question.
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