scholarly journals Do self-esteem and gender help explain depressive and/or anxiety symptoms in adolescents?

2022 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 579-601
Author(s):  
Brenda Fernanda Pereira da Silva ◽  
Laís Santos Vitti ◽  
Sônia Regina Fiorim Enumo ◽  
André Faro
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Body Image Dissatisfaction ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
School Students ◽  
And Gender

Depression and anxiety are common in adolescents, and poor mental health in this group leads to harm in adulthood. This study investigates to what extent gender, age, body image dissatisfaction, and self-esteem were related to depressive and anxiety symptoms in adolescents. The sample consisted of 1,209 high school students of both sexes, aged 13-19 years (M = 15.8; SD = 1.23). The instruments were: sociodemographic questionnaire, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), Stunkard Figure Scale and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Multinomial logistic regression indicated that being female and having low or moderate self-esteem satisfactorily explained the anxiety symptoms. Reduced self-esteem was the best explanation for depressive symptoms, and finally, reduced rates of self-esteem satisfactorily explained symptoms for both disorders.

Depression, Self-Esteem, Suicide Ideation, Death Anxiety, and Gpa in High School Students of Divorced and Nondivorced Parents

1992 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 755-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Brubeck ◽  
John Beer
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Suicide Ideation ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Background Information ◽  
School Students ◽  
Grade Point

131 subjects from a small north central Kansas high school participated and completed the Beck Depression Scale, Coopersmith Self-esteem Inventory short form with the Lie scale included, the Death Anxiety Scale, and the first 11 questions of the Beck Scale of Suicide Ideation. Background information collected from each subject included age, grade, marital status of parents, and sex. Grade point averages (on a 4-point scale) were taken from the students' files. On death anxiety girls had a significantly higher mean than boys while freshmen's and sophomores' scores were significantly higher than those of juniors and seniors but there was no difference between means of students of divorced and nondivorced parents. On self-esteem and GPA children of divorced parents scored significantly lower than children of nondivorced parents, but there was no difference between the sexes on self-esteem. On GPA girls scored significantly higher than boys. On depression the children of divorced parents scored higher than children of nondivorced parents but there was no sex difference.

The relationship between childhood traumas and depression and anxiety in high school students in Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S440-S440
Author(s):  
G. Sezer ◽  
G. Hızlı Sayar ◽  
H. Gulmez
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
School Students ◽  
Childhood Trauma Questionnaire ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Childhood Traumas ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between childhood traumas and depression and anxiety levels of high school students in Sakarya. The sample of the present study consisted of 145 students 79 are girls and 66 are boys are chosen from five different school. To measure depression levels of students “Beck Depression Inventory” is used. To measure anxiety levels “Beck Anxiety Inventory” is used. To collect data about childhood traumas “Childhood Trauma Questionnaire” is used. Data were analyzed using SPSS 16.00. In result of this study, 86 people had symptoms of depression. And also there is a relationship between depression symptoms and anxiety symptoms. However, there is no relationship between childhood traumas and anxiety symptoms and depression symptoms.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Sleep disorder prevalence in at-risk adolescents and potential effects of nightmare triad syndrome

2018 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia D. McIver ◽  
Barry Krakow ◽  
Jessica Krakow ◽  
Michael R. Nadorff ◽  
Victor A. Ulibarri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
At Risk ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Sleep Disorders ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
School Students ◽  
At Risk Adolescents

Abstract Objective At-risk high school students, those considered to have a higher probability for academic failure or dropping out, were assessed for various sleep disorders. Effects were compared between students with and without the nightmare triad syndrome (NTS+), the sleep disorders’ cluster of frequent nightmares, insomnia disorder and suspected sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). Methods Data were gathered at a charter school for at-risk youth using: computer based surveys, physical airway exams, and mental health interviews by school social worker. Ninety-two students were enrolled, and 70 completed all study components. Results Students were teenaged [17.10 (1.50) years], male (52.2%) slightly overweight [BMI 25.50 (6.41)] Hispanics (87.0%); two-thirds (65 of 92) subjectively reported a sleep problem. Frequent nightmares (39.1%), insomnia (ISI ≥ 12, 41.3%), and SDB risk (79.3%) were common. Several presumptive sleep disorders (insomnia, SDB risk, parasomnia, or nightmares) were associated with worse sleep quality and lower quality of life. Nineteen students met criteria for NTS. Compared to NTS−, NTS+ showed significantly lower quality of life (p < 0.003, g = 0.84). Regression analyses revealed higher levels of depression and anxiety symptoms in NTS+ students. NTS was associated with reduced quality of life independent of anxiety symptoms. Conclusion Prevalence of presumptive sleep disorders was high with a tendency for clusters of sleep disorders in the same individual. Students with NTS+ showed worse outcomes and reduced quality of life, mediated partially by depression and anxiety. To examine relationships between sleep disorders and mental health in at-risk adolescents, research investigations must include both subjective and objective measurements of sleep.

scholarly journals Prevalence of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms of High School Students in Shandong Province During the COVID-19 Epidemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeng Zhang ◽  
Ailing Zhai ◽  
Mingchuan Yang ◽  
Junqing Zhang ◽  
Haotian Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Shandong Province ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Special Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Mental Symptoms

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) has brought physical risks as well as psychological challenges to the whole world. High school students are a special group suffering from both the academic pressure and the threat of the epidemic. The present study aims to conduct an online survey to investigate the psychological status of high school students in Shandong Province.Methods: Using a web-based cross-sectional survey, data was collected from 1,018 voluntary high school students assessed with demographic information, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) and a self-designed online-study effect survey. Correlation analysis was performed to explore the relationships between depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and study effect.Result: The prevalence of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and a combination of depressive and anxiety symptoms was 52.4, 31.4, and 26.8%, respectively, among high school students in Shandong Province during the COVID-19 epidemic. And from moderate to severe severity level, the rates of depressive symptoms and anxious symptoms were 17.6 and 4.6%. Female students exhibited a higher rate and severity of mental symptoms than male, and grade one senior high school students got a higher rate and severity of mental symptoms than the other two grades. Nearly half of the students were not satisfied with their online-study effect. The PHQ-9 score had a strong positive correlation with the GAD-7 score. Both the PHQ-9 score the GAD-7 score had a negative correlation with the study-effect survey score.Conclusion: Quite a number of high school students suffered from depression and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 epidemic. Sufficient attentions should be paid, and necessary supports should be provided, to protect the mental health of this special group.

scholarly journals Depression and Anxiety Symptoms, Social Support, and Demographic Factors Among Kenyan High School Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 1432-1443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom L. Osborn ◽  
Katherine E. Venturo-Conerly ◽  
Akash R. Wasil ◽  
Jessica L. Schleider ◽  
John R. Weisz
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
School Students

scholarly journals Pride Camp: Pilot Study of an Intervention to Develop Resilience and Self-Esteem Among LGBTQ Youth

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance S. Weinhardt ◽  
Linda M. Wesp ◽  
Hui Xie ◽  
Jennifer A. Murray ◽  
Jeanette Martín ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Controlled Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Lgbtq Youth ◽  
Social Opportunities ◽  
Post Test ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: Many LGBTQ youth experience rejection and discrimination in their families and schools, and the range of interventions for improving their resilience and well-being is limited. We developed and piloted an LGBT-youth-focused intervention to build resilience, called Pride Camp. Methods: Using a mixed-method approach we examined the impact of Pride Camp on resilience and other measures of well-being among LGBTQ high school students who attended camp on a college campus in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Camp attendees and the research sample included a majority proportion of transgender and gender nonbinary (TGN) youth. Results: Pre- and post-test data from our quantitative surveys (n=28), indicated significant increases in resilience, self-esteem, and quality of life in LGBTQ youth who attended camp. Similar results were found among the TGN participants (n=19). Qualitative data from focus groups indicated that specifically for TGN youth, the affirming environment at the camp provided social opportunities that they had not found elsewhere. Conclusions: Findings suggest that the Pride Camp intervention provides a platform for LGBTQ youth to meet peers and engage in LGBTQ communities, improving their resilience and outlook on the future. A larger controlled study of the Pride Camp intervention is warranted.

scholarly journals Depression and Anxiety Symptoms, Social Support, and Demographic Factors Among Kenyan High School Students

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom L Osborn ◽  
Katherine E. Venturo-Conerly ◽  
Akash Wasil ◽  
Jessica L. Schleider ◽  
John Weisz
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
School Students

Objectives: Depression and anxiety are leading causes of youth disability worldwide, yet our understanding of these conditions in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) youths is limited. Research has been sparse in SSA, and prevalence rates and correlates of these conditions remain scarcely investigated. To help address these gaps, this cross-sectional study assessed the prevalence of adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms in a community sample of high school students in Kenya. We also examined associations between those symptoms and psychosocial and sociodemographic factors. Methods: We administered self-report measures of depression and anxiety symptoms, social support, gratitude, growth mindsets, and life satisfaction to 658 students (51.37% female) aged 13 – 19.Results: Only the measures of depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-9), anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screen-7), and social support (Multidimensional Scale for Perceived Social Support Scale) showed adequate internal consistency (Cronbach alpha &gt; 0.70) in the study sample. Findings with these measures among Kenyan youths showed high levels of depression symptoms (45.90% above clinical cutoff) and anxiety symptoms (37.99% above clinical cutoff). Older adolescents reported higher depression and anxiety symptoms, as well as lower social support than younger adolescents. Females reported more anxiety than males, and members of minority tribes reported more anxiety than members of majority tribes.Conclusions: This study highlights the high prevalence of adolescent internalizing symptoms in Kenyan high school students, identifies important correlates of these symptoms, and illustrates the need for culturally appropriate assessment tools.

Some Characteristics of Relations among Depression, Anxiety, and Self-Efficacy

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (3-1) ◽  
pp. 755-764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna L. Comunian
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
School Students ◽  
Anxiety Test ◽  
Children’S Depression

Self-efficacy should be regarded as a cognitive precursor or as a component of anxiety and of depression. Data on depression, anxiety, and self-efficacy were available from a study of the relation of self-concept to depression. Scores on the Children's Depression Scale of Lang and Tisher, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory of Spielberger, Test-Anxiety Inventory of Spielberger, Self-efficacy Scales of Schwarzer, and the Three-Person Test of Backes, were analyzed by multivariate methods. Subjects were 200 high school students ages 15 to 17 yr. The factor solution obtained from the factor analysis provides information regarding state-anxiety, test-anxiety, worry, and self-efficacy. Further research is planned for a better understanding of the linkages among self-efficacy, self-concept, depression, and anxiety.

scholarly journals PREDIKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI PELAKU DAN KORBAN PERUNDUNGAN MAYA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-31
Author(s):  
Faiqoh Faiqoh
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Cyber Bullying ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
And Gender

This study was aimed to predict cyber-bullying by self esteem, academic performance, and lonliness. The participants of the study were 313 junior high school students that selected by nonprobability sampling technique. This study used eight instruments that were validated by confirmatory factor analysis and was analyzed by multiple regression. The results of the study were significant prediction of peer-related loneliness, affective performance, and gender to cyber-bulliers and significant preditctions to cyber-bullying victims by peer-related loneliness, in affective performance

scholarly journals Race and Gender Differences of Body Physique and Self-Esteem in High School Students

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 92-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill E. Bennett ◽  
Steven F. Philipp ◽  
Petra B. Schuler ◽  
Jane L. P. Roy
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
African American Females ◽  
School Students ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
And Gender

This study investigated race and gender differences of body physique and self-esteem in high school students (N = 754, mean age = 16.5 + 1.2 yr) attending public schools. Participants completed a five part body physique questionnaire where responses were based on a set of nine figure silhouette drawings and a five part self esteem questionniare. African American females reported significantly larger body physique preferences when compared to their Caucasian counterparts (p0.05). African American’s (males and females) scored significantly higher on the self-esteem assessment than their Caucasian counterparts. These findings suggest that there might be important race and gender differences on various aspects of body physique and self-esteem in high school students.

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