Word Associations and Depression In Adolescents

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examines how words are associated in adolescents with depressive symptoms. For the main purpose of this paper two research questions were raised. The first question was whether and how a depressive disorder would be related to the words associated when being primed by a school-related stimulus item. The second question was whether age and gender would be related. In an attempt to respond to these two major concerns, a word association task was administered. Results showed that there was a similar ranking pattern in the most frequent words produced by all three groups of participants: the typical, potential, and risky groups. By contrast, the frequency ratios of a particular set of associated words were different at a statistically significant level across the three groups. As regards these main findings, this study proposed that a semantic relationship, a semantic network, and semantics of emotional words should be taken into consideration in interpreting the words associated most frequently in response to school-related stimuli in adolescents with depressive symptoms.

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