Date of Award
12-1993
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Department
Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology
First Advisor
Dr. Diane Prosser
Second Advisor
Dr. Ariel Anderson
Third Advisor
Dr. Edward Trembley
Abstract
The role of dependent personality traits in increased vulnerability to depression has been studied extensively. However,this issue remains controversial, and limited research has been done involving adolescent inpatients. In addition, limited research has been done regarding the possible interaction effects of gender and level of dependency upon depression and specific depressive symptoms in an adolescent inpatient population.
symptoms in an adolescent inpatient population. In this study, 92 inpatient adolescents from a private, not-for-profit psychiatric hospital had completed both the Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory (Millon, 1976, 1982), and the Multiscore Depression Inventory (Berndt, 1986).
One group consisted of 46 adolescents who had been rated as high on dependent personality traits. The second group, the control, consisted of 46 randomly selected subjects who had rated low on the dependent personality traits.
Using both one-way and 2 X 2 ANOVAS, no significant differences were found between the high dependency and the low dependency groups' measure of overall depression- -regardless of gender. However, significant differences were found for some of the specific depressive symptoms based upon either level of dependency, gender, or dependency X gender interaction effects. Significant findings related to prominent personality styles associated with severe depression were also discovered.
Access Setting
Dissertation-Open Access
Recommended Citation
Kubik, Cathy L., "The Relationship Between Dependency, Gender, and Personality Style as it Impacts Adolescent Inpatient Depression" (1993). Dissertations. 1896.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations/1896