Citation

Crocker AD, Hakim-Larson J. Can. J. Behav. Sci. 1997; 29(2): 76-82.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Canadian Psychological Association, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1037/0008-400X.29.2.76

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

S. Harter et al (see record 1992-39442-001) have developed a model that examines perceived competence and social support as predictors of depression and suicidal ideation in adolescents. This study applies a subset of concepts from Harter's model to a group of 92 9-12 yr old boys and girls and their parents. Children completed questionnaires assessing self perception, social support, and depression. Parents completed modified forms of the same questionnaires to assess their perceptions of their children. Using separate standard multiple regression analyses for child, mother, and father informants, support was found for perceived competence and social support as predictors of depression and suicidal ideation during pre-adolescence.

DISCUSSION focuses on how depression is manifest at different developmental levels. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Keywords

Competence; Major Depression; Prediction; Self-Perception; Social Support; Suicidal Ideation