Childhood Depression, Family Income, and Locus of Control
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 168 (12) , 732-735
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-198012000-00004
Abstract
Family income and the response style of internal-external locus of control were studied for their relationship to childhood depression. The subjects were 944 prepubertal school children representing 3 levels of socioeconomic status. Depression was measured by 3 methods: peer nominations, self-rating and teacher ratings. Externality was associated with high depression and internality with low depression. The joint effects of low family income and externality produced the highest depression scores. Income and externality were inversely related.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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