Social relationships play a key role in depression. This is apparent in its etiology, symptomatology, and effective treatment. However, there has been little consensus about the best way to conceptualize the link between depression and social relationships. Furthermore, the extensive social-psychological literature on the nature of social relationships, and in particular, research on social identity, has not been integrated with depression research. This review presents evidence that social connectedness is key to understanding the development and resolution of clinical depression. The social identity approach is then used as a basis for conceptualizing the role of social relationships in depression, operationalized in terms of six central hypotheses. Research relevant to these hypotheses is then reviewed. Finally, we present an agenda for future research to advance theoretical and empirical understanding of the link between social identity and depression, and to translate the insights of this approach into clinical practice.

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抑郁与社会认同：综合综述。

社会关系在抑郁症中起关键作用。这在其病因，症状和有效治疗方面很明显。但是，关于概念化抑郁与社会关系之间联系的最佳方法，人们尚未达成共识。此外，关于社会关系性质的大量社会心理学文献，特别是关于社会身份的研究，还没有与抑郁症研究相结合。这篇综述提供了证据，表明社交联系对于理解临床抑郁症的发生和解决至关重要。社会认同方法然后被用作概念化社会关系在抑郁症中的作用的基础，并根据六个中心假设进行了操作。然后审查与这些假设有关的研究。最后，