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Table 16<br />

Percentages, Significant and Near Significant (< .10) Chi-Square Tests in A<strong>do</strong>lescent<br />

Depression Categories and Subcategories by Grade, N = 332<br />

Category / Subcategory<br />

Depressed Mood<br />

Grade 8 (%)<br />

n = 114<br />

Grade 11 (%)<br />

n = 218<br />

Chapter IV: Results<br />

x 2<br />

(1, N= 332)<br />

Inner Pain 16.7% 8.7% 4.67, p = .03<br />

Depressed Appearance 27.2% 12.4% 11.38, p = .00<br />

Hopelessness 10.5% 17.4% 2.79, p = .10<br />

Pessimism 11.40/0 5.5% 3.74, p = .05<br />

Suicidal 28.1% 17.0% 5.60, p = .02<br />

Contextual/Causal 27.2% 19.3% 2.74, p = .10<br />

Note. Categories and Subcategories deleted if N < 5% for this Table and the remaining Tables in this chapter.<br />

Results are s<strong>how</strong>n only where p> .00 and < .10 for this Table and the remaining Tables in this chapter. Complete<br />

results for this Table and the remaining Tables in this chapter are s<strong>how</strong>n in the Appendices.<br />

As can be seen in Table 16, significantly higher percentages <strong>of</strong> grade 8 a<strong>do</strong>lescents than<br />

grade 11 participants provided COAD units in the constructs Inner Pain, Depressed Appearance,<br />

Pessimism, and Suicidal.<br />

Association between A<strong>do</strong>lescent Depression Constructs and Gender<br />

Table 17 lists the percentage distribution and x 2 analysis results <strong>of</strong> a<strong>do</strong>lescent <strong>depression</strong><br />

categories and subcategories by gender. Nine <strong>depression</strong> constructs differed significantly<br />

between boys and girls in the percentages <strong>of</strong> a<strong>do</strong>lescents who provided COAD units in these<br />

areas. A significantly higher percentage <strong>of</strong> girls than boys generated COAD units in the<br />

categories: Low Self-Worth, Suicidal, Social Impairment, Retardation/Agitation,<br />

Masking/Stigma; and in the subcategories: Depressed Appearance, Perceived Disconnection,<br />

Aggression/Bullied, and Quiet.<br />

More than 80% <strong>of</strong> the boys and girls mentioned COAD units in the category <strong>of</strong><br />

Depressed Mood, and more than 60% in the category <strong>of</strong> Social Impairment and in the<br />

subcategory <strong>of</strong> Sadness. Subcategories Irritability, Behavioral Disconnection, and Lonely,<br />

contained more than 30% <strong>of</strong> the students' COAD units for both boys and girls (see Table A1-4 in<br />

100

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