Engineering has one of the lowest depression rates.

Mr Payne · 10-25-2007, 03:43 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071014/...sion_usa_dc_2?

I'm not surprised. I'm sure this correlates to general happiness in the job as well.

weenie · 10-25-2007, 05:03 PM

It doesn't appear that they controlled for gender in this study (?), and women suffer from depression at higher rates than men.

Mr Payne · 10-25-2007, 06:28 PM

True, it's just a straight average - but the male depression rate in Engineering is still quite low.

http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/depression/occupation.pdf

3.3% for engineering - compared to 2.3% in the sciences, 5.5% in finance & 4.5% in legal.