Depressive symptoms in adolescents as a function of personality factors
- 1 October 1991
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
- Vol. 20 (5) , 493-500
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01540633
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between the personality factors of sociotropy and autonomy and depressive symptomatology in a nonclinical sample of adolescents. One hundred and thirty-six adolescents (60 males, 76 females), ranging in age from 15 to 17 years and enrolled in a high school of the Western Quebec Regional School Board, completed the Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory. Subjects with high sociotropy showed significantly more depressive symptoms than subjects with low sociotropy. With regard to autonomy, high autonomous females scored higher on the Beck Depression Inventory than high autonomous males. Results are discussed in light of the literature on adolescent depression.Keywords
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