ABSTRACT
Depression, a complex term, is not merely a sense of disappointment, grief, loss or feeling of being down. It is a cluster of symptoms and factors that affects a person's way of life. According to World Health Organization (WHO), depression is recognized as one of the 10th leading causes of early death, with the trend of clinical depression on its rise, especially in women. Women being pivotal members of any society play a key role in the development and success of the built environment and have proven to show great resilience at times of crisis. Thus, it becomes significant to address the issues of mental health especially depression in women being the key players of society. This study, therefore, aims to explore the underpinning criteria of women's daily life that impacts their mental health, causing depression. The study adopts a mixed-method approach to identify the underpinning criteria of depression in women and adopts exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis for the investigation of construct validity to determine the relationship between the 18 variables of women's daily life on their mental health, i.e. Depression. The analysis aids in investigating the construct validity by interpreting the 18 variables found from the literature into 5 factors as Personal factor, Self-care factor, Emotional factor, Leisure and Health factor.
