| dc.description.abstract | Background: According to studies, adolescent actions or circumstances are to blame for more than 33% of the illness burden and close to 60% of adult premature mortality. Relevant studies in the developed world have reported peer pressure and low self-esteem to be among the major factors escalating the rate of depression. This study aimed to determine the relationship between peer pressure, self-esteem and depression among adolescents.
Method: This was a cross-sectional survey involving collection of data from the adolescents in Luzira community using questionnaires. A total of 100 adolescents were interviewed and the collected data was entered and cleaned in Microsoft excel 2016 and exported to SPSS (Version 21) for further analyses. Descriptive analysis and Pearson correlational analysis was done to assess the relationship between peer pressure, self-esteem and depression among adolescents.
Results: We found that there was significant relationship between peer pressure and self-esteem, and the correlation was moderately positive (r= 0.357, p= 0.00). also we found that there was significant relationship between peer pressure and depression, and this correlation was moderately correlated (r= 0.445, p= 0.00). There was no significant relationship between self-esteem and depression (r= 0.004, p= 0.971).
Conclusion: Peer pressure is an important predictor of self-esteem and depression. Self-esteem is not an important influencer of depression among adolescents in Luzira community.
Key words: Peer pressure, Self-esteem, Depression, Adolescent | en_US |
