القبول والرفض الوالدي كما يدركه المراهقون وعلاقته بالاكتئاب

Abstract EN

The present study aims to reveal the relationship between adolescents’ perception of parental acceptance or rejection and depression.

The study was carried out on a sample of (268) Kuwaiti high school students tenth grade (135 male, 133 female) aged ranging 15 to 17.

Parental rejection / acceptance scale, and Beck Depression Inventory were applied and the results were as follows: * A statistically significant negative correlation between students’ scores on Depression and scores on perceived acceptance of father and mother.

* A statistically significant positive correlation between students’ scores on depression and mother, father perceived rejection.

There were no statistically significant differences between male and female students on depression or on the mother, father perceived acceptance scale.

* There’s no statistically significant differences on measures of depression, and the dimensions of acceptance - rejection of parental residence due to variation in parent (father, mother, both, others).

* Perceived mother rejection predicted depression among students while perceived mother acceptance predicted no degrees of depression.