Middle Eastern Journal of Disability Studies

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Movaghar M, Mirza Hosseini H, Zargham Hajebi M. A model for explaining depression based on the direct role of social support through the mediation of attribution styles in children. MEJDS 2018; 8 :94-94
URL: http://jdisabilstud.org/article-1-1194-en.html

Background & Objective: Depression (major depressive disorder) is a frequent and severe psychiatric illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think, and how you act. Depression causes feelings of sadness and a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease a person’s ability to function at school and at home. Researchers have identified the factors associated with depression in childhood. Social support is a multi-dimensional concept defined in various ways, for example, it can be defined as a resource provided by others, as a means to deal with stress, or as an exchange of funds. On the other hand, some scholars have defined social support as the amount of love, companionship, care, respect, attention, and assistance received by the individual by individuals or other groups such as family members, friends, and others. The purpose of this study was to explain depression based on the direct role of social support and the mediating role of attribution styles in children.
Methods: The research method was descriptive and correlational methods. The statistical population of this study was all children of Tehran's welfare centers in 1120 children aged 7 to 12 years in 79 centers in 2018 that 545 children selected by the available sampling method. The research instruments included the Kovacs Children's Depression Inventory (1992), Peterson & Seligman Children's Attribution Stress Questionnaire (1984) and Procidano and Heller's Social Support Questionnaire (1983). Data were analyzed using SPSS-22 and AMOS 23 software. Path analysis and Pearson correlation applied to analyze the data.
Results: Pearson correlation showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between internal and negative attribution styles with depression (p<0.001) and negative internal consistency, stability, and general styles with depression (p<0.001). Also, social support had a negative and significant relationship with depression (p<0.001). There was a significant correlation between the total score of attribution style, social support, and depression (p<0.001). Also, at the level of the structural equation, social support with the mediating role of attribution styles can predict depression in children, and this model has fitness (p<0.001).
Conclusion: In general, the results of this study revealed that social support with the mediator role of attribution styles could be a desirable model for predicting depression in children. As a result, the results of this study can be used to identify the type of social support and attribution style in psychological counseling in depressed children.