Is there any gender difference in the incidence of adolescent depression? What accounts for this gender difference?

What will be an ideal response?

Adolescent females are far more likely to develop depression than are their male counterparts. In a recent study, at 12 years of age, 5.2 percent of females compared to 2 percent of males had experienced first-onset depression. In this study, the cumulative incidence of depression from 12 to 17 years of age was 36 percent for females and 14 percent for males. Among the reasons for this gender difference are that females tend to ruminate in their depressed mood and amplify it; females' self-images, especially their body images, are more negative than males'; females face more discrimination than males do; and puberty occurs earlier for girls than for boys.