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Table 22
Percentage Distribution, Significant, and Near Significant (< .10) Chi-Square Tests of
Chapter IV: Results
Frequency in Adolescent Depression Constructs by Self-Recognition Depression in Those Who
Self-Recognized Depression Beyond Two Weeks Prior to the Survey versus Those Who Self-
Recognized Depression within the Past Two Weeks, N = 182
Category/ Subcategory
Depressed Mood
Self-Recognized
Depression
(beyond 2 weeks),
n = 151
Self-Recognized
Depression
(within past 2 weeks),
n = 31
x 2
(1, N= 182)
Unmotivated 18.5% 6.5% 2.73, p = .10
Indecisiveness/Impaired 11.9% 29.0% 5.96, p = .02
Concentration and Attention
Social Impairment 72.8% 51.6% 5.44, p = .02
Lonely 39.1% 22.6% 3.03, p = .08
Aggression/Bullied 7.9% 0.0% 2.64, p = .10
Note. Self-Recognition of Depression is out of those who recognized depression in themselves within the past 2
weeks prior to the survey, n = 31, and those adolescents who self-recognized depression in their lifetime (beyond 2
weeks), n = 151. Remaining Sample comprised n = 143 who did not self-recognize depression, missing, n = 7.
Summary
A significantly higher percentage of adolescents who self-recognized depression within
two weeks prior to the survey than those who did not self-recognize depression, provide their
COAD in the constructs, Anxiety Symptoms, Contextual/Causal, and Fear. Adolescents who
self-recognized depression within two weeks prior to the survey had a significantly higher
percentage of COAD units than those who self-recognized depression beyond two weeks in the
category Indecisiveness/Impaired Concentration and Attention. In contrast, adolescents who did
not self-recognize depression beyond two weeks had a significantly higher percentage of COAD
units than those who recognized depression in themselves within two weeks, in the category
Social Impairment.
More than 80% of the students in both sets of self-recognition groups generated COAD
units in the category of Depressed Mood (see Table E1-8 in Appendix E 1, and Table F 1-9 in
Appendix Fl for complete results). More than 50% of the participants, in both sets of self-
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