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Chapter 1V: Results
girls (n = 67), who thought that they needed to talk to someone, actually did. Chi-square test
revealed that a higher percentage of those adolescents who self-recognized depression and
thought that they needed to talk to someone when depressed, talked to someone versus those who
did not talk to someone, x 2(1, N 149) = 33.93, p = .00.
In differentiating the group of adolescents who talked and those who did not talk to
someone when feeling depressed by depressive symptomatology using the RADS-2 (Reynolds,
2002), there were no "Depressed" adolescents in the group who did not self-recognize
depression. The 24 (6 missing) screened as "Depressed" adolescents were all in the group who
self-recognized depression, and 54% of these "Depressed" adolescents talked to someone versus
72% who were "Not Depressed." In the "Depressed" group of adolescents who talked to
someone, 50% of the 6 boys and 56% of the 18 girls talked to someone.
Relations of Social Perspective Coordination, Emotion Awareness, Expression of
Emotion, and Emotion Regulation, to Adolescents' Dimensions of Depressive
Symptomatology
To address the fourth question concerned with examining the relations of social
perspective coordination, emotion awareness, expression of emotion, and emotion regulation, to
adolescents' dimensions of depressive symptomatology, the data were first screened for
violations of assumption. Next, correlational analyses were done to measure the associations of
social perspective coordination, emotion awareness and expression, and emotion regulation, to
dimensions of depressive symptomatology. Finally, linear hierarchical regression analysis was
conducted to explore the influence of social perspective coordination, emotion awareness,
expression of emotion, and emotion regulation, to dimensions of adolescents' depressive
symptomatology.
In the initial part of this fourth section preliminary analysis to screen the data is
presented. Next, a presentation of the correlational analysis among the selected variables is
reported. In the final part of this section, I present the results of hierarchical regression.
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