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Chapter III: Methodology
Categories, Subcategories, and Examples of Participants' Content Analyzed Conceptions of
Adolescent Depression (COAD) for Social Impairment, N = 332
#^Category ^ Category Definition^#^Subcategory ^ Examples
9 Social
Impairment
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Focus of descriptors is
distinguished mainly by
perceived disconnection, or
behavioral disconnection, or
feeling lonely, or aggression or
being bullied.
9a^Perceived
Disconnection
9b^Behavioral
Disconnection
Feelings of isolation,
unwanted.
Unsociable, stay
alone, left out.
9c^Lonely ^ Lonely, loneliness, feel
lonely, lonesome,
aloneness.
9d^Aggression/Bullied She puts down other
people, steal/do bad
things, bullied,
aggressive
Remaining Categories, Subcategories, and Examples of Participants' Content Analyzed
Conceptions of Adolescent Depression (CORD), N = 332
#^Category ^ Category Definition ^ # Subcategory ^ Examples
2^Loss of Interest or
Pleasure
Focus of descriptors is
distinguished mainly by
diminished or loss ofinterest
or pleasure from previous
state of interest or pleasure
in function.
3^Appetite/Weight/Sleep Focus of descriptors is
Changes^distinguished mainly by
weight loss when not dieting
or weight gain, or decrease
or increase in appetite,
craving of specific food,
insomnia or hypersomnia.
Lose interest in
school, lose interest
in hobbies, lose
interest in activities,
the same things they
used to enjoy.
Sudden increase or
decrease in weight,
lose appetite, sleepy,
not enough sleep, eat
a lot, unable to sleep,
hungry, overeating,
weight, get very
skinny, are fat.
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