Abstract
This study aims at assessing the possible relationship of life events, social support and depressive disorders, and the possible mediating effect of this microsocial variables on the association of depression to childhood traumatic experiences and educational level. Ours is a transversal study on a probabilistic population sample consisting of 153 adult women aged 18 to 64 years, who reside at the Isla Grande de Chiloe, X Region of Chile, based on a survey conducted at home. A direct relationship was detected between the number of life events of the last 12 months and the depressive disorders. Social support is related to depression through an interaction with the number of life events. Educational level is related to both microsocial variables in an independent way. Traumatic childhood experiences are related to a higher number of life events in adulthood, but not to social support. Results agree with predictions based on stress theory an on the buffer theory of social support. A reasonable hypothesis is that educational level – a macrosocial variable– influences people’s health through microsocial variables.
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