Association between acute critical life events and the speed of onset of depressive episodes in male and female depressed patients

Table 5 Acute critical life events and speed of onset of the current depressive episode in the sample (N = 100)

Variables	Total Sample (N = 100) R(P)
Total number of acute critical life events	− 0.08^b (p = 0.42)
Total number of foreseeable acute critical life events	−0.14^b (p = 0.16)
Total number of unforeseeable acute critical life events	0.002^c (p = 0.99)
Total number of acute positive critical life events	−0.24^b (p = 0.02)
Total number of acute neutral critical life events	−0.10^c (p = 0.33)
Total number of acute negative critical life events	0.13^b (p = 0.21)
Total number of acute major critical life events	0.10^b (p = 0.34)
Total number of acute minor critical life events	−0.28^b (p = 0.005*)
Mean burden of acute critical life events	0.31^a (p = 0.002*) (n = 96)
Mean unpleasantness of acute critical life events	0.33^b (p = 0.001*) (n = 96)

^aSemi-partial correlation coefficient due to a significant association between a variable regarding critical life events, age and the total score of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (17-item version) [17]; ^b Semi-partial correlation coefficient due to a significant association between a variable regarding critical life events and age; ^c Spearman-Brown correlation coefficient (in cases of non-normal distribution as assessed by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test)
*p ≤ 0.005 (significant at the alpha-adjusted significance level)

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