Age and Gender as moderating variables in Adolescent's Depression: Implications for Counselling and Psychopathology

This study investigated the age and gender factors of 30 randomly selected adolescents’ response to depression pattern. It was hypothesized that adolescents on the basis of age and gender will differ in their early and late period of depressive conditions. The participants’ age range was between 11 and 22 years while their mean age was 15.63 years. Sub-section “D” of the Adolescent Personal Data Inventory (APDI) was the research measure adopted. The t-test statistic at 0.05 alpha level was used. The findings showed that late adolescents are more depressed than those in their early adolescence. They showed high mean score comparison in their degree of psychopathology. Further finding indicate that the female adolescents are more depressed than their male counterparts. The female adolescents showed higher mean score of 115.24 as against the male participants with 104.88 mean score. The higher the mean scores, the more of the psychopathologies manifested