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ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION OF YOUNG ADOLESCENTS OF RAJSHAHI CITY

By: Taramon Khatun, Md. Nur-E-Alam Siddique, Nazma Afroz

Key Words: Anxiety, Depression, Adolescence

JLES-Vol-11-No-P-1-5, December 2016

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the differences of anxiety and depression of adolescents in Rajshahi city. Purposive sampling technique was followed to select 200 adolescents (76 males and 124 females) from different educational institutions of Rajshahi city. Anxiety was measured by administering the Bangla version (Deeba & Begum, 2004) of anxiety Scale and Depression of the same respondents were measured by the Bengali version of (Huq, S.Z, 2000) Depressive Experiences Questionnaire originally developed Blatt et. al. (1976).The obtained data was analyzed by employing Mean, SD, Independent samples t-test and Pearson‟s product moment correlation co-efficient(r). The findings through t-test revealed that there is a significant difference of anxiety and depression between male and female students. The findings also revealed that there is a significant positive correlation (r= 0.822, p<0.01) between anxiety and depression significant. The results have been interpreted in the light of the past studies.

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