Relation Between Socioeconomic Status and Depression, Anxiety, and Self-esteem in Early Adolescents.

Purpose: The aim of the present study is to examine relationship between socioeconomic status and depression, anxiety, self-esteem in early adolescents (7th grade students). In addition, it is examined whether there is a significant relationship gender difference and parent education with depression, anxiety, and self-esteem. Method: In this research, it was worked with adolescents (7th grade students). In addition, this study is conducted in two schools (private school and state school) to compare the adolescents' socioeconomic status. The number of sample was 106 in which there were 50 girls and 56 boys. 53 of them are from private school and 53 of the students are from state school. It was applied three different scales to analyze depression, anxiety, self-esteem: Children's Depression Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children, and Piers Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale were used. And, 'Personal Information Sheet' was filled by adolescents to get the socioeconomic knowledge about them. Findings: It was found statistical significant difference between depression and the kind of school (private and state schools) that students are going on; and between trait anxiety scores and the kind of school. It was not found statistically significance mean difference between state anxiety scores and the kind of school; and between self-esteem and the kind of school. It was found statistically significant mean difference between only "anxiety" subfactor among self-esteem subfactors scores and the kind of school that students are going on. It was not found statistically significant mean difference for gender with depression, state anxiety, and selfesteem. But, it was found statistically significance mean difference between trait anxiety scores and gender. It was not found statistical significant difference for the mother's and father's education degree on depression, state anxiety, trait anxiety, and self-esteem scores of students but it was found significant difference "Happiness", "Anxiety", and "Mental and School Situation" scores with mother education degree and "anxiety" scores with father education degree. Discussion and Conclusion: As expected and as previous researches have showed, lower socioeconomic status is associated with higher rates of depression and trait anxiety. However, as unexpected, it was not reached significant result for socioeconomic status with state anxiety and self esteem. For all of these and other findings, resons are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]