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Table 23
Percentage Distribution, Significant, and Near Significant (< .10) Chi-Square Tests of
Chapter IV: Results
Frequency in Association between Adolescent Depression Constructs and Thinking About Own
Need to Talk to Someone When Depressed, N = 233
Category / Subcategory
Depressed Mood
Did Not Think Needed
to Talk to Someone,
n = 85
0/0
Thought Needed to
Talk to Someone,
n = 148
X 2
(1, N = 233)
Moody 4.7% 11.5% 3.03, p = .08
Pessimism 2.4% 7.4% 2.64, p = .10
Feel Trapped 1.2% 8.1% 4.92, p = .03
Contextual/Causal 29.4% 19.6% 2.92, p = .09
Note. 233 (out of N = 332) participants responded to the values, "Yes" and "No" in this item, 94 responses applied
to "never been depressed" and "did not self-recognize depression," missing, n = 5.
As can be seen in Table 23 there was one significant finding in the category Feel
Trapped. Those adolescents who thought that they needed to talk to someone when depressed
had a higher percentage of COAD units in this construct than those who did not think that they
needed to talk to someone.
Association between Adolescent Depression Constructs and Talking to Someone at the Time of
Feeling Depressed
To examine the association between adolescent depression constructs and talking to
someone at the time of feeling depressed, percentages and x 2 tests were calculated using one
item developed for this study to examine whether participants talked to someone at the time of
feeling depressed (Appendix H). Table 24 lists the percentage distribution and x 2 tests results.
Chi-square tests revealed that adolescent depression constructs differed significantly only in the
subcategory Hopelessness. A significantly higher percentage of adolescents who did not talk to
someone at the time of feeling depressed (25.5%) versus those students who did talk to someone
(12.0%) mentioned COAD units in this area, x2 (1, N = 180) = 5.12, p = .02.
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