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    Depression, social support and Gender among school going adolescents.

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    Undergraduate Dissertation (611.1Kb)
    Date
    2022-01-10
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    Namuyomba Semaka, Winnie
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    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
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