Black Americans have lower lifetime depression prevalence than Whites

Evidence

Major epidemiological surveys of incidences of depression among Black and White Americans (Kendler, Gallagher, Abelson, & Kessler, 1996) show that national lifetime prevalence rate of major depression is actually lower for Blacks (about 12 percent) than for Whites (about 16 percent). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1065

Recent studies of mental health reveal a similar overall pattern. Major epidemiological surveys of incidences of depression among Black and White Americans (Kendler, Gallagher, Abelson, & Kessler, 1996) show that national lifetime prevalence rate of major depression is actually lower for Blacks (about 12 percent) than for Whites (about 16 percent). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1065

Categorization

• QUESTION: A striking counterintuitive epidemiology fact worth confirming against more recent survey waves — does the pattern still hold today?
• SHARE: Send to anyone who works with mental-health disparities — the standard assumption runs the other way.
• XREF: Mirror of the self-esteem finding; the depression data give independent epidemiological weight to the paradox that targets of stigma show psychological protection, not damage.
• corroborated: 6 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1065