ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH DEPRESSED MOOD IN ADOLESCENCE

Is depressed mood in childhood associated with an increased risk for initiation of alcohol use during early adolescence?

OBJECTIVE Using prospective data, we tested the hypothesis that early depressed mood was associated with an increased risk for initiation of alcohol use. In addition, we examined whether these associations varied according to the youths' report that alcohol consumption occurred with or without parental permission. METHODS The participants for these analyses were students, ages 9 to 13 years o...

Global and Local Attention Processing in Depressed Mood

Background: Attention impairments are the hallmark feature of subclinical depression. The present study used Navon task to compare the allocation of attention to the local and global stimuli in depressed and nondepressed participants. Method: The primary sample included 186 female high school students from Shiraz city who were selected using cluster sampl...

Attention Processing in Depressed Mood: Testing Defocused Attention Hypothesis

Depressed mood effects attention and its span. The present study aimed to compare the allocation of attention to relevant and irrelevant neutral stimuli in depressed and non-depressed participants. The studied populations include all the students from Azad university of Ahwaz and the undergraduate psychology students from Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. After completion of Beck Depression ...

Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: The Role of Depressed Mood

Background & Aim: Disabilities resulting from road accidents, especially spinal cord injury, which often occur in the early or middle ages of life, cause psychiatric symptoms and worsen the quality of life in these people. The present study aimed to determine the role of depressed mood in the quality of life of patients with spinal cord injury in Guilan Province (in the north of Iran)...

Stress Reactivity and Depressed Mood 1 Stress Reactivity and Vulnerability to Depressed Mood in College Students