'I am tired, sad and kind': self-evaluation and symptoms of depression in adolescents.
'I am tired, sad and kind': self-evaluation and symptoms of depression in adolescents.
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DOI:
10.1186/s13034-023-00661-4
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发表时间:
2023-11-08
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
Reynolds, Shirley
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作者:
Hards, Emily;Orchard, Faith;Reynolds, Shirley
Although self-evaluation i.e., negative perceptions of the self is a common depression symptom in adolescents, little is known about how this population spontaneously describe their self and available data on adolescent self-evaluation is limited. This study aimed to generate and report on a list of words used by healthy adolescents and those with elevated depression symptoms to describe their self-evaluation. Linguistic analysis (LIWC) was then used to compare self-evaluation between the two groups. Adolescents aged 13–18 years (n = 549) completed a measure of depression symptoms (the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire) and a measure of self-evaluation (the Twenty Statements Test). Responses were then collated and presented in a freely accessible resource and coded using Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) analysis. Self-evaluation words generated by adolescents were uploaded to a publicly accessible site for future research: 10.15125/BATH-01234. Adolescents with elevated depression symptoms described themselves as ‘Tired’ and ‘Sad’ more than healthy adolescents. However, there was no difference between groups in respect to their use of specific positive, prosocial self-evaluation ‘words’ (i.e., ‘Caring’ and ‘Kind). Following Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) analysis, adolescents with elevated depression symptoms generated significantly more words than healthy adolescents, generated more words classified as negative emotion, anxiety and sadness and generated fewer words classified positive emotion than healthy adolescents. As predicted by the cognitive model of depression, our findings suggest that adolescents with elevated symptoms of depression generated more negative self-evaluation words than healthy adolescents; however they also generated prosocial positive self-evaluation words at the same rate as non-depressed adolescents. These novel data therefore identify an ‘island’ of resilience that could be targeted and amplified by psychological treatments for adolescent depression, and thus provide an additional technique of change.
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DOI:
10.1177/2167702616654898
发表时间:
2017-01
期刊:
Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
影响因子:
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作者:
LeMoult J;Kircanski K;Prasad G;Gotlib IH
通讯作者:
Gotlib IH
影响因子:
6.9
作者:
Fritzsche, A.;Dahme, B.;Gotlib, I. H.;Joormann, J.;Magnussen, H.;Watz, H.;Nutzinger, D. O.;von Leupoldt, A.
通讯作者:
von Leupoldt, A.
影响因子:
4.7
作者:
Davey, Christopher G.;Fornito, Alex D.;Harrison, Ben J.
通讯作者:
Harrison, Ben J.
影响因子:
6.6
作者:
Hards, Emily;Ellis, Judi;Reynolds, Shirley
通讯作者:
Reynolds, Shirley
影响因子:
3.6
作者:
Bantum, Erin O'Carroll;Owen, Jason E.
通讯作者:
Owen, Jason E.