Abstract

GOMEZ, YVONNE. COGNITION, EMOTION, AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS. rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2007, vol.39, n.3, pp.435-447. ISSN 0120-0534.

A characterisation of adolescents is presented in terms of positive and negative affect, automatic negative and positive thoughts and depressive symptomatology. An aleatory sample of 1096 adolescents 12 to 16 years old, from public and private schools from the city of Medellín (Colombia) was selected. 55.7% of the sample were male. The results show that male and female adolescents differ on the three evaluated variables. At the cognitive level, female adolescents showed more automatic negative thoughts; at an emotional level they showed higher levels of negative affect and more depressive symptoms. Male adolescents showed more positive thoughts, higher levels of positive affect and fewer depressive symptoms. This profile was more clear in the subgroup of adolescents with scores over the 75 percentile in the scale of depressive symptoms excepting negative affect

Keywords : Positive Affect; Negative Affect; Automatic Negative Thoughts; Automatic Positive Thoughts; Depressive Sintomatology; Adolescents.

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