Depression, social support and Gender among school going adolescents.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the association between gender social support and depression
among school going adoloscents. The study followed the following objectives; to find out whether
there is an association between gender and social support among school going adoloscents,
depression and gender among school going adolescents and depression and social support among
school going adolescents. The study targeted 189 school going adolescents and a quantitative
study design which employed a correlation research design method to establish the association
between variables was used. A purposefully constructed self-administered questionnaire was used
to collect data from the 91 respondents. Collected data was analyzed using software called
Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS-24) to find the level significance of the
hypothesis.The study results showed that there is no significant relationship between depression
and gender among school going adolescents male [M=7.932],[SD=5.179] female
[M=8.435],[SD=4.379]:t[137.031]=[-.690], p=[-.491] .The results furthermore showed that there
is a significant relationship between gender and perceived social support among school going
adolescents male [M=56.649],[SD=11.809] female [M=56.278],[SD=12.263] and perceived
social support t[187]=[.206],p=[.837]. Lastly results revealed that there is no significant
relationship between Depression is not related to perceived social support among school going
adolescents r[189]=[-.232],p=[0.001].Conclusively being exposed the same environments and
conditions, school going adolescents are almost equally affected by depression despite the gender.
The difference Perceived social support potentially is due to the difference in gender roles and
biological reasons