소아우울에 관련된 요인에 관한 연구 - 가정환경，양육태도，학업성적을 중심으로 하여 -

Studies on Factors Involvedin Children s Depression - Especially on Home Environm ent, Rearing Attitude, School Achievement -

Objects : Investigations were carried out to study the factors involved in children s depression. Methods ： Self- report questionnaire was applied to the sixth elementary school students in Sangae-Dong, Nowen-Gu, Seoul, Korea. The questionnaire was composed of the contents as below ； 1) Questionnaire made by authors to study multiple factors that could be involved in children s depression. 2) Children’s Depression Inventory. 3) Maternal Behavior Research Instrument. Results : 1) Those mothers whose children had the higher Children’s Depression Inventory scores showed more tendencies of introversion, fostering dependency, negative evaluation on their children and relative malfunctional rearing. 2) Children s depression was highly related to lower school achievement. 3) Children who had past history with severe problem were depressive. 4) Girls were more depressive than boys. 5) No meaningful differences in the children’s depression were found in relation to the religion, the level of educational and economic state of parents, children’s position in the family and family problems such as poverty, disease and marital discord. Conclusion : The factors o n children s depression were rearing attitudes of mothers, school achievement, sex and past history with severe problem of children