PREDICTORS OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEPRESSION IN URBAN AND RURAL REGIONS BELOW THE HUNGER LINE IN TÜRKİYE

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2024-9-06

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Örs, Ayşe

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Depression is one of the internalization problems that can reduce the level of functionality and subsequently cause cognitive, emotional, behavioral, or academic problems in children and adolescents. There are community and familial-level contextual factors that predict depression in children and adolescents. Poverty is a risk factor for depression, and rural and urban poverty may have different effects. The present study examined the predictors of depression, the differences in rural and urban regions in terms of contextual factors, and the moderating role of living in urban versus rural on the relationship between contextual factors and child and adolescent depression. Participants were 2441 mothers who have children aged 9-17 and living below the hunger line. Independent sample t-test results indicated that urban and rural regions differed in terms of poverty indicators of families (income-need ratio, maternal education, material hardship), neighborhood characteristics (physical resources and stress), mother-perceived social support, and maternal depression. Moreover, results of hierarchical regression analysis stated that living in rural regions, maternal education, mother-perceived social support, and maternal depression were associated with depression in children and adolescents, and living in urban-rural regions interacted with maternal depression predicting child and adolescent depression. The findings of the present study will serve as a source for future research and interventions to be developed in terms of indicating the differences between rural and urban regions below the hunger line in Türkiye.

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Depression, Poverty, Hunger line, Urban-rural, Contextual factors

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111439

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis