A study of the rate of depression and its relation with dependency to others among university students

Abstract

Nowadays depression is a common disease increasing all around the world. Whereas almost half of those suffering from it are not aware of their disease or their disease is diagnosed as something else. The aim of this study is to examine the rate of depression and its relation with dependency to others among the students of Tafresh Payame Noor University. This study is conducted by descriptive-survey method. The statistical population consisted of 1000 university students(both male and female) and the sample volume with respect to Morgan's table was 278 people who selected by stratified-random sampling. 167 of them were female students and 111 of them were male students. In order to collect data  Beck's depression questionnaire and questionnaire of dependency to others were applied. To analyse data independent t-test and X2(Chi-squared test) were used.

Findings:  The results of independent t-test showed that from the viewpoint of depression rate no significant difference exists between boys and girls and for purposes of emotional dependency a significant difference is observed between these two groups and among girls the mentioned point is more than boys. From the point of view of distrust no significant difference is declared among these two groups. Paying attention to autonomy clarified that there is a meaningful difference between these two groups and this point in boys are more than girls. Also the results of X2 test showed that there is a positive relation between emotional dependency and depression and  a positive relation is found between distrust and depression but there is no positive relation between autonomy and depression.