. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 21.

Published in final edited form as: Depress Anxiety. 2009;26(8):718–723. doi: 10.1002/da.20571

TABLE 1.

Stress scores for depressed and nondepressed women

	Group means ± standard deviations
	Nondepressed women	MDD women	Cohen’s d^a
Chronic stress scores (total across all domains)	18.46 ± 2.41	20.46 ± 2.54	.81
Episodic stress scores (total severity of events)	1.49 ± 1.94	3.27 ± 3.24	.67
Dependent event scores (total severity)	0.64 ± 1.22	1.60 ± 1.99	.58

MDD, major depressive disorder.

Effect size estimates reflect mean differences between participants with MDD and nondepressed participants.