• Dr. Sita

the present study aimed to study depression among adolescents in relation to some personal factors. these factors were considered as constituting the major factors associated with adolescents depression. The personal factors studied were parenting style and genders. the objectives of the present study were to measure the depression among adolescents, to study the effect of parenting style and gender on depression among adolescents.it was hypothesized that the adolescents having authoritarian and permissive parents would have more depression and the girls would have more depression than boys. The study was conducted on 200 adolescents of 13 to 18 years from high schools and coaching of medical and engineering which was located in Patna. The sample was incidental cum purposive one. Tool used for the purpose were Beck depression inventory and Parenting style scale and t-test was used for the analysis of the obtained result. obtained result supported the hypotheses.

adolescents, depression, parenting style, gender, beck depression inventory.

"a study of depression among asdolescents in relation to some personal factors", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.268-270, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901535.pdf

"a study of depression among asdolescents in relation to some personal factors", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp268-270, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901535.pdf