الاكتئاب لدى طلبة الجامعة و علاقته بالجنس و التخصص

الملخص EN

The problem of the present research is about the depression considering it dangerous disease person may suffer from sadness, negative feelings and emotions , failure , despair , pain.

The risk of the depression is deemed considerable problem when the person never felt that he is infected with and continued his life negatively thinking with darkness or even thinking in harming himself or his relatives and friends.

Thus, the problem of the present research is determined by the following two questions: Should the university youth suffer from depression effect? Are there difference in the level of depression between females and males? The importance of the [present research is merged from the importance of youth stage as an important age stage especially for the university youths and also due to the importance of depression as an illness case suppressing mental and physical powers of the man causing humanity lose.

The present research aims to measure the level of depression of the university students identifying the differences in the level of depression according to the gender and specialty variables.

This research is determined by undergraduate students - Fourth Stage , College of Education , University of Basrah for the academic year 2011-2012.

To achieve the aims of the present research , the researcher applied depression module of BACK (1967, Al Ansari Translation , 2002) upon extracting the truth and its prove.

The present research concluded that intact undergraduate students are not infected with depression and the results showed that there is no statistical differences in the depression level according to the gender and specialty variables.