Social Conditions and Depressive Disorder: a Social Ecological Perspective from the Example of Kaohsiung Metropolis (I)

Specifically, the independent and interaction effect of community socioeconomic status and individual attributes on the development of one\'s depression was explored. Residents, totally 404, from a suburban township of Kaohsiung County were recruited by the procedure of multistage and multilevel sampling for the questionnaire survey.

The results showed the point prevalence of depression was 26.5%. Those who had lower monthly income were more likely to developed depression; depression was more prevalent among residents from higher socioeconomic community. After controlling for individual\'s background attributes, individual\'s monthly income was the only significant variable associated with one\'s depression status, furthermore, it is more prevalent among those who had lower income but resided in higher socioeconomic community.