Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Rakesh Kumar Behmani ¹, Mayank Upmanyu ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders and, also a highly recurrent disorder with an increasingly younger age of onset for the initial episode. Depression in adolescence is under-recognized although its associated burden of illness is very high. Some frequent associations with depression in this age group are underachievement, poor lifestyle choices including substance abuse, and a high risk of the persistence of the illness into adulthood. The present study was aimed to examine the effect of age and gender in the experience of symptoms of depression among adolescents. The sample comprised of 50 males (25 early adolescents, 25 middle adolescents) and 50 females (25 early adolescents, 25 middle adolescents) adolescents in the age range of 12-18 years. Sample was selected by making use of purposive incidental sampling procedure. The results of 2X2 ANOVA revealed that female adolescents were significantly higher on depression as measured by Beck depression inventory, than male adolescents. Further, depression was found to be significantly higher in early adolescence as compared to middle adolescence.

Keywords

Depression, Age, Gender, and Adolescents.

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V. V. Upmanyu ¹, Shelly Bhagat ¹, Amit Dwivedi ¹, Mayank Upmanyu ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, IN
2 Department of Psychology, GJUS&T, Hisar, IN

Abstract

This study concerns with the prevalence of loneliness in a sample of college students and examines gender - differences in loneliness as a function of sex-role orientation and depression. Two hundred college students (100 male and 100 female) aged between 16 and 18 years were tested to ascertain the level of experienced loneliness. The study revealed: (1) college students experienced moderate degree of loneliness, (2) the two genders differed significantly in sex-role identity (3) males with androgynous and masculine sex-role identity did not differ significantly in perceived loneliness; the additional presence of feminine characteristics in androgynous sex-role identity failed to provide any special benefits in terms of vulnerability to loneliness, (4) males with androgynous and masculine sex-role orientation, however, were less lonely than feminine or undifferentiated characteristics, (5) for female, there was no significant difference in loneliness among different types of sex-roles orientation, and (6) gender differences in loneliness failed to reach statistical significance among groups low on depression.

Keywords

Loneliness, Depression, Sex-Role Orientation.

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