Stressful Life Events and Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Depression in Adolescent Students

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naseeb Kumar ◽  
Radhey Shyam
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Predictors Of Depression

Construction of a model of risk in the use of alcohol and other illicit substances among adolescent students / Construcción de un modelo de riesgo en el consumo de alcohol y otras sustancias ilícitas en adolescentes estudiantes de Bachillerato

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisol Pérez Ramos ◽  
Emilia Lucio-Gómez Maqueo
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
School Type ◽  
Time Schedule ◽  
Single Parent Family ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Other Substances ◽  
The Mean

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo principal identificar algunos factores vinculados con el consumo de drogas y alcohol en una población de estudiantes de educación media superior de la Ciudad de México. Se consideraron en específico variables intervinientes como: Edad del adolescente; sexo; promedio y turno escolar; tipo de familia y sucesos de vida estresantes.A través de un muestreo aleatorio simple estratificado, se obtuvo a 1997 adolescentes, a todos ellos se les aplicaron los instrumentos: Información sociodemográfica forma para adolescentes; Sucesos de vida forma adolescente; AUDIT y el ASSIST. La identificación de los adolescentes en riesgo se realizó a partir de los puntajes obtenidos en el AUDIT y ASSIST. De la muestra total el 25% (n=502), fueron detectados por consumo en riesgo de alcohol y alguna otra droga. El resto de los casos quedaron clasificados como casos de no riesgo. Se realizó una regresión logística binaria condicional, para identificar los factores que favorecen el consumo de alcohol, tabaco y otras drogas ilícitas en los adolescentes. Los resultados indican que ser varón; el pertenecer a una familia monoparental; la edad y los sucesos negativos en la salud, entre otros, aumentan el riesgo de consumir alcohol u alguna sustancia ilícita.  Abstract Several risk factors, which increment the probability of using alcohol and other illegal substances, like family dysfunction have been considered.The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with alcohol and other substances abuse in a sample of 1997 students from senior high school from Mexico City. The mean age of the adolescents was 16.7 (s.d.1.7). 52.7% were females and 47.3% males, 56% studied in the morning and 43.8% in the afternoon. Some variables were considered like adolescents’ age, grades, time-schedule in which they went to school, type of family and stressful life-events were considered specifically.The identification of adolescents at risk was done with AUDIT andASSIST. A binary logistic regression was calculated in order to identify those factors that increment alcohol, tobacco and other illegal substances use. Results indicate that a single parent family, being older and stressful life events, among others, increment risk consumption of alcohol and other substances.

scholarly journals Causal relationshipsamongperception of Life Stressful Events, Self-efficacy, Coping Strategies, Stress and Life Attributions among Higher Diploma Students at Assiut College of Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 502
Author(s):  
Afaf M. Geis ◽  
Mostafa A. Elhudaybi
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
And Coping

The study aimed to test a model of the relationship between perception of stressful life events and perceived self-efficacy as well as coping strategies with life attributions of higher diploma students at Assiut faculty of education by testing direct and indirect effects between perceiving stressful life events and the study variables. In addition, the study aimed to find out whether there are differences in perceived self-efficacy and coping strategies as well as attributionsbetween those with positive and negative perception of stressful life events.Also, differences in perceiving stressful life events were tested across classes of the demographic variables: gender, specialization, place of living, and marital status. The sample included 410 students. Results showed that there was a causal relationship in which perception of stressful life events was affected by perceived self-efficacy (direct effect is .631, indirect effect is .356), by coping strategies (direct effect is .676, indirect effect is .313), and life attributions (direct effect is .781, indirect effect is .211). There were significant differences in perceived self-efficacy, and coping strategies as well as the problem centered coping strategies in favor of those with positive perception of stressful life events. There were significant differences in the perception of stressful life events due to demographic variables including place of living and specialization in favor of humanities majors and those who lived in cities. 

Variations in Stress Responses as a Function of Cognitive and Personality Variables

1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 575-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. Morgan ◽  
Dean W. Owen ◽  
Arden Miller ◽  
Martha L. Watts
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Successful Resolution ◽  
The Impact

Prior research shows wide individual differences in perception of and response to stressful life events. The present study examined the extent to which those differences could be attributable to individual differences in one's feelings of general self-efficacy or to characteristic ways of attributing causality for possible successful resolution of the problem posed. A sample of 273 undergraduate students were surveyed to ascertain their estimates of the stressfulness of four of 16 stressful life events as well as their attributions of the causality of successful resolution and the individuals' scores on the Self-efficacy Scale. Subjects' ratings of stressfulness were quite consistent regardless of the specific definition of stress used, were significantly, but at a low level, related to felt self-efficacy, and were inconsistently related to attributional characteristics. Further directions for research in the situational and individual interaction in assessing the impact of stressful events are suggested.

scholarly journals Neighborhood Context, Personality, and Stressful Life Events as Predictors of Depression Among African American Women.

2005 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn E. Cutrona ◽  
Daniel W. Russell ◽  
P. Adama Brown ◽  
Lee Anna Clark ◽  
Robert M. Hessling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Neighborhood Context ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
American Women ◽  
Predictors Of Depression

scholarly journals A Path Analysis of Psychotic Symptoms among Persons with Schizophrenia using Methamphetamines

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-294
Author(s):  
Ek-uma IMKOME ◽  
Jintana YUNIBHAND ◽  
Waraporn CHAIYAWAT
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Social Dysfunction ◽  
Emotionally Focused ◽  
Expressed Emotions ◽  
Persons With Schizophrenia

Knowledge of psychotic symptoms among persons with schizophrenia influenced by methamphetamine use guides the design of nursing innovations to maximize positive patient outcomes. This cross-sectional, descriptive correlation study aimed to explore the relationships among coping, medication use self-efficacy, expressed emotions, stressful life events, social support, and social dysfunction, and to test a model that explained the influences of these factors on psychotic symptoms among persons with schizophrenia using methamphetamines.The stress-vulnerability model for schizophrenia guided this study. A sample of 313 persons with schizophrenia using methamphetamines in psychiatric hospitals and institutes for drug abuse treatment in Thailand was recruited by multi-stage sampling and responded to a Demographic Questionnaire, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Brief COPE, Self-efficacy for Appropriate Medication Use Scale, Expressed Emotional Scale, Stressful Life Events Questionnaire, and Social Dysfunction Scale. A linear structural relationship was used to test the hypothesized path model.The hypothesized model was found to fit the empirical data and explained 54 % of variance in psychotic symptoms (χ2 = 8.28, df = 8, χ2 /df = 1.0, GFI = 0.99, AGFI = 0.96, RMSEA = 0.01). The highest total effect and factors directly affecting psychotic symptoms were emotionally focused coping strategies, medication use self-efficacy, social dysfunction, positively expressed emotions, and stressful life events.The findings recommend that emotionally focused coping strategies, self-efficacy in medication use, social dysfunction, positively expressed emotions, and stressful life events were important factors that influenced psychotic symptoms in patients. Nursing interventions designed to manage these factors are crucial for reducing psychotic symptoms.

Self-efficacy as a mediator between stressful life events and depressive symptoms

2000 ◽  
Vol 176 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K. Maciejewski ◽  
Holly G. Prigerson ◽  
Carolyn M. Mazure
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Path Analyses ◽  
Confounding Variables ◽  
Significant Negative Impact

BackgroundSelf-efficacy, a characteristic that is protective against depressive symptoms, may be undermined by stressful life events.AimsTo estimate the effects of stressful life events on self-efficacy, and to examine self-efficacy as a mediator of the effect of stressful life events on symptoms of depression.MethodUsing a sample of 2858 respondents from the longitudinal Americans' Changing Lives study, path analyses were used to evaluate interrelationships between self-efficacy, life events and symptoms of depression controlling for a variety of potentially confounding variables. Separate models were estimated for those with and without prior depression.ResultsFor those with prior depression, dependent life events had a significant, negative impact on self-efficacy. For those without prior depression, life events had no effect on self-efficacy.ConclusionsFor those with prior depression, self-efficacy mediates approximately 40% of the effect of dependent stressful life events on symptoms of depression.

Anxiety, depression and stressful life events among medical students: a prospective study in Antalya, Turkey

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Aktekin ◽  
Taha Karaman ◽  
Yesim Yigiter Senol ◽  
Sukru Erdem ◽  
Hakan Erengin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Anxiety Depression
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