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A comparison of the social role performance of acutely depressed women with a matched non-symptomatic normal group, using a semi-structured interview, indicates that depressed women are significantly more impaired in all roles. The degree of the depressive's impairment in intimate interpersonal relations provides a significant context for understanding symptom formation and treatment processes.
Weissman et al. (Thu,) studied this question.