INTERSECTION BETWEEN SOCIAL PRESSURE, DISCRIMINATION AND MENTAL DISORDER: ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEPRESSION AND INTERRACIAL MARITAL ARRANGEMENTS

Abstract

The intersection between social pressure, discrimination, and common mental disorder is addressed by assessing the relationship between depression and marital arrangement. The analysis methodology is quantitative, and the information is secondary, available in the Social Dimensions of Inequality Survey. In summary, the importance of the relationship between depression and interracial marriage is highlighted, in which a significant difference in the prevalence of the disease was observed between women and men of different racial groups. The group that deserves the most attention due to the higher incidence of the disease is black men who live in a marital union with white women.