Coping And Depression Among Secondary School Students
Abstract
The aim of this study is to compare the relationships between secondary
school students' depression and coping levels. Gender, grade, socio-economic status,
mother’s education level, father’s education level and parenting styles differences were
also searched in this context. Descriptive statistics was used in this study. In order to
collect data, 350 (175 girls; 175 boys) students are randomly recruited from five different
secondary schools in Mugla. The instruments held to collect data were the “Information
Gathering Form”, “Children’s Depression Inventory” and “Coping Styles Inventory”. For
data analyses were used SPSS for WINDOWS. The group differences were analyzed by
“t-test” and “F statistics”. Correlational statistics was also employed to search for
relationships among all variables. The findings showed that the gender, socio-economic
status and parenting styles differences exist on depression. There are also gender, grade
and parenting styles differences exist on external help seeking and emotional
disengagement; grade and father’s education level on active planning of coping styles.
The results are discussed in the light of previous findings and in the context of depression
and coping styles conducting future research for implications as well.
Key words: Depression, coping, secondary school students.
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References
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Details
Primary Language
en.
Subjects
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Journal Section
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Authors
Atılgan Erözkan
This is me
Publication Date
October 30, 2013
Submission Date
October 30, 2013
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2006 Volume: 24 Number: 24