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Childhood depression: peer reactions to depression and life stress
- Source :
- Journal of abnormal child psychology. 13(4)
- Publication Year :
- 1985
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Abstract
- The present study investigated children's responses to a peer's childhood depression. Younger children in third and fourth grade and older children in fifth and sixth grade were exposed to one of four films. The four films portrayed a female peer who was either depressed or not depressed and who had experienced numerous recent life stresses or no recent life stress. Overall, children rated the depressed peers as less likeable and attractive, as engaging in fewer positive current and future behaviors, and as needing therapy more than a nondepressed peer. There was a tendency to rate the depressed peer with high life stress more positively than the depressed peer with low life stress; this tendency decreased with age. Girls rated all of the peers and especially the stressed peers more positively than did the boys. The results are discussed in terms of the implications of children's social interaction for the initiation or maintenance of childhood depression.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
education
Peer Group
Developmental psychology
Life Change Events
Sex Factors
Social Desirability
Adaptation, Psychological
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
Child
Life stress
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Childhood Depression
Depressive Disorder
Public health
Younger child
Social relation
Psychotherapy
Psychiatry and Mental health
Female
Rejection, Psychology
Psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00910627
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of abnormal child psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6a3da29caa2a59e7ba4f8bcc5280d66a