Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Age of onset for mental disorders such as depression and anxiety is usually in childhood or adolescence. These disorders can have a negative impact on adolescents' lives. Girls are more likely to show symptoms of depression and anxiety than boys and the trend in these symptoms seems to have been increasing. Changes in the social environment in which the adolescents grow up, can influence their health. The main focus of this study is to examine gender differences and trends in depression and anxiety symptoms among Icelandic adolescents from 2006 to 2014. The data came from five cross-sectional, nationally representative samples of Icelandic students in the years: 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014. A total of 47,706 students participated. In every cohort girls had significantly more symptoms of depression and anxiety than the boys did. In the 2012 there was a significant decrease in symptoms of both depression and anxiety in boys compared to 2006, 2009 and 2010; and for girls there was a significant decrease in 2012 in depression symptoms compared to 2006, and anxiety symptoms were significantly lower in 2012 compared to 2006, 2009 and 2012. In 2014 there was a significant increase in both depression and anxiety symptoms compared to 2012 for girls, but not for boys. \nThis thesis is a manuscript for an article.
Source: Skemman
Author: Hrafnhildur Ólafsdóttir 1980
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7025031669