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Remaining Significant Categories and Subcategories^ 116
Association of Self-Recognition of Depression to Depressive Symptomatology, and to
Thinking About Own Need to Talk and Talking to Someone at the Time of Feeling
Depressed^ 121
Relations of Social Perspective Coordination, Emotion Awareness, Expression of Emotion,
and Emotion Regulation, to Adolescents' Dimensions of Depressive Symptomatology^ 125
Preliminary Analyses^ 126
Correlational Analyses^ 128
Regression Analysis^ 129
Hierarchical Regression Analysis for Boys Only^ 131
Hierarchical Regression Analysis for Girls Only^ 133
CHAPTER V: DISCUSSION^ 135
Depression: A Voice of an Adolescent in Grade 8^ 135
What are Adolescents' Conceptions of Depression?^ 137
Construction of Adolescents' COAD^ 137
Generation, Distribution, and Range of COAD Units^ 138
Grade Distribution of COAD Units^ 138
Gender Distribution of COAD Units^ 139
Generated Constructs of Adolescent Depression^ 140
Depressed Mood^ 141
Sadness.^ 141
Irritability.^ 141
Inner Pain^ 142
Other Subcategories of Depressed Mood.^ 142
Social Impairment^ 144
The Importance of Social Impairment^ 144
Differentiating Qualities of Social Impairment.^ 145
Other Categories Defined by Adolescents^ 146
Remaining Categories and Subcategories in Descending Order of Percentages as
Defined by Adolescents' COAD^ 148
Summary^ 149
Associations of Adolescent Depression Constructs to Grade, Gender, Depressive
Symptomatology, Self-Recognition of Depression, and Pathway to Talking to Someone
When Depressed^ 150
Associations of Categories and Subcategories of Adolescent Depression to Grade and
Gender^ 150
Association of Categories and Subcategories of Depression to Grade^ 150
Association of Categories and Subcategories of Depression to Gender^ 151
Association of Categories and Subcategories of Depression to Gender in Grade 8 ^ 151
Association of Categories and Subcategories of Depression to Gender in Grade 11 152
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