Measurement of depression in university students

N. Majeed, Yasir

	Measurement of depression in university students
Al-Mustansiriya Journal of Arts
Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 58, 2017, Pages 1-25
Author
Yasir N. Majeed
Abstract
The depression of the psychological problems faced by the individual greatly in different environments, it is the mood of the symptoms of a private show in the form of mental disorders can be diagnosed by tests of depression, and was the goal of current research to measure depression in university students using the Beck Scale for depression was to extract the properties of psychometric new to him through the creation of the force discriminatory for the period using samples contrasting, finding truth paragraph through the degree of para-class college and find a stable measure through my way of re-testing and was (0.86) and find true test, through the presentation to the experts and arbitrators specialists and got vertebrae standard on 80% of the total experts, have been implemented measure on a sample of students from the University of Mosul, composed of (404) male and female students and found that there is a difference between male and female students in the depressed and this difference D for the benefit of students, and there was no significant difference between grade levels as well as for the competence of the scientific and humanitarian study also showed (41%) There have depression, and (32%) had mild and (20%) moderately and (5%) had severe depression and is this ratio is too large as suggested by this study, a similar study applied to the students of junior high also recommends Using this measure as a tool for the detection of depression in the diagnostic phase or phases of treatment.

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