Context Gender differences in mental disorders, including more anxiety and mood disorders
among women and more externalizing disorders among men, are found consistently in
epidemiological surveys. The gender roles hypothesis suggests that these differences
narrow as the roles of women and men become more equal. Objectives To study time-space
(cohort-country) variation in gender differences in lifetimeDSM-IVmental disorders across
cohorts in 15 countries in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Survey …