• Huidrom Prem Kumar Singh

The aim of the present study was to find out the relationship between socio-demographic factors and depression among school going adolescents of Manipur. Objectives: To study the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and depression of the study samples. Results: Socio demographic factors such as, educational qualification (p-value = 0.735), place of residence (p-value = 0.557), types of family (p-value = 0.586), family monthly income (p-value = 0.056), and religion (p-value = 0.609) were found to insignificant relationship between depression whereas other factors stream of subject (p-value = 0.028 ), habits of using drugs (p-value = 0.002 ) and history of substance related disorder in the family (p-value = 0.000 ) were found to have significant relationship with respect to depression indicating that adolescents who opted science were more prone to have depression than arts students. Conclusion: The present study attempted to find out the relationship between socio-demographic factors and depression among school going adolescents. The Socio demographic factors such as educational qualification, religion, place of residence, types of family, and family monthly income were found to have no relationship with respect to level of depression. Whereas, factors such as stream of subject, habits of using Drugs and history of substance related disorder in the family were found to have relevant association with respect to depression. The finding suggested that science students were more depressed than the arts students. Adolescent having habits of using drugs were more depressed then those adolescents who did not exposed to any drug use.

Depression, School going Adolescents, Socio-demographic factors

"Relationship between Socio-demographic Factors and Depression among School Going Adolescents of Manipur", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.7-11, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904N02.pdf

"Relationship between Socio-demographic Factors and Depression among School Going Adolescents of Manipur", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp7-11, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904N02.pdf