Risk factors for depression and early maladaptive schemas in adolescents
International Journal of Development Research
Risk factors for depression and early maladaptive schemas in adolescents
Received 22nd October, 2018; Received in revised form 19th November, 2018; Accepted 01st December, 2018; Published online 30th January, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Vanega Romero Sally et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We conducted a research on risk factors for depression supported by Young's Early Maladaptive Schemas (EMSs) theory on secondary school students in Mérida, Yucatan. It was carried out using a mixed methodology, having as a general objective to design, implement, and evaluate an intervention program aimed at weakening the risk factors for depression in adolescents. It was performed in three phases, first a quantitative measurement was made on a sample of 325 students using the Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI), the questionnaire of Risk Factors for Depression and the EMS Questionnaire. It was found that 34.8% had significant symptoms and 12% reported risk factors for depression. In the second phase, the intervention program was implemented on a student. The information received from the intervention was qualitatively analyzed, observing changes in emotion recognition and expression. Finally, a post-test was carried out using the same instruments on said subject to compare the pre- and post-intervention scores. It was concluded that there may be a link between the risk factors for depression considered on this research and the EMS.
