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Introduction^ 29
Adolescents' Self-Recognition of Depression^ 30
Do Adolescents Think About Own Need to Talk to Someone When Feeling Depressed?32
Do Adolescents Talk to Someone When Feeling Depressed?^ 34
Social Cognition^ 36
Depression and Links to Social and Cognitive Development^ 37
Summary of Findings^ 37
Precursors to the Development of Depressive Symptomatology^ 38
Introduction^ 38
The Development of Social Perspective Coordination: Its Link to Adaptive Social
Functioning and to Depressive Symptomatology^ 38
Understanding Emotions and Links to Depressive Symptomatology^ 41
Defining Emotions^ 42
Development of Emotions^ 43
Emotional Competence^ 45
Summary of Findings^ 46
Cumulative Summary of the Literature^ 46
Research Questions and Design^ 47
Research Questions^ 47
CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY^ 49
Participants^ 49
Measures^ 52
Demographic Information^ 52
Social Perspective Coordination and Emotion Understanding^ 52
Social Perspective Coordination^ 52
Self-Awareness of Emotion and Expression of Emotion^ 54
Emotion Regulation: Sadness^ 55
Emotion Regulation: Anger^ 56
Depression: Symptomatology, Conceptions, Self-Recognition, Thinking About Own
Need to Talk to Someone, and Talking to Someone when Feeling Depressed^ 57
Depressive Symptomatology^ 57
Adolescents' Conceptions of Adolescent Depression^ 58
Self-Recognition of Adolescent Depression^ 59
Thinking About Own Need to Talk to Someone when Depressed^ 60
Talking to Someone When Feeling Depressed^ 60
Content Analysis of Participants' COAD^ 61
Coding Schemes^ 61
Classification of Participants' Units of Adolescent Depression^ 62
Intercoder Reliability^ 68
Procedures^ 75
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