{"title":"High rates of depressive symptoms among senior high school students preparing for national university entrance examination in Turkey.","authors":"Ibrahim Yildirim, Tuncay Ergene, Kerim Munir","doi":"10.18546/ijsd.04.2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/ijsd.04.2.07","url":null,"abstract":"Tuncay Ergene, Ph.D., is supported by NIMH, ICORTHA Fogarty International Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (MH/DD) Research Training Program (D43TW05807) at Children’s Hospital Boston; Principle Investigator (PI): Kerim M. Munir, MD, MPH, DSc. Introduction The purpose of the present study is to determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms among senior high school students preparing national university entrance examination (OSS) in Turkey. The survey was conducted in the second term of students’ senior year at high school, a time when they were exposed to a stressful standardized national examination. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms and to identify a possible association of depressive symptoms with other student and socio-demographic characteristics. We used the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), adapted for Turkey, to assess self-reported depressive symptoms among 984 students. Overall, 45.1% of the students reported depressive symptoms. The relationship between the presence of depressive symptoms and student gender, family size, living circumstances, academic grade, number of times national exams were taken, monthly family income, daily study time, number of friends of opposite sex and involvement in social activities were examined. Gender, academic succes and monthly family income had statistically significant differences on BDI scores. The high rate of self-reported depressive symptoms reflects heightened exam-related stress, social expectations, worries about future success linked to uncertainty about securing a university placement and personal, familial and demographic factors. The greater prevalence of depressive symptoms among females (49.5%) compared to males (40.6%) highlights higher degrees of stress or vulnerability among female adolescents facing similar circumstances to males in Turkey.","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"4 2","pages":"35-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/ijsd.04.2.07","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32968197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are we nearly there yet? Curriculum, relationships and disaffected pupils","authors":"G. Macleod","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.05.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.05.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"5 1","pages":"29-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.05.1.07","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68310326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poverty, Race and Youth: Challenges and Promising Practices in Education.","authors":"C. Hughes, Pam Stenhjem, R. Newkirk","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.05.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.05.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"5 1","pages":"22-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.05.1.06","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68310299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education \"on the Road\": Working with Adolescent Dropouts in an Experimental Project.","authors":"S. Serpieri, P. Giusti","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.05.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.05.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"5 1","pages":"11-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.05.1.04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68309717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Connectedness in American Native School Success.","authors":"Marilyn K. Iverson","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.05.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.05.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"5 1","pages":"16-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68309785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ameliorating the Stress of Immigrant Women's Poverty: Coping Using Children's School Programs.","authors":"Rebecca A. Robles-Piña","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.05.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.05.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"5 1","pages":"37-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68310534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Issues of School Dropouts in Hong Kong.","authors":"Y. Lau, Bill Y. P. Tsang, D. Kwok","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.05.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.05.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"5 1","pages":"7-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68310178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turning Them on: How Does a Teacher Reach the Reluctant Learner?.","authors":"D. Gutmann","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.05.1.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.05.1.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"5 1","pages":"45-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68310194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Real Alternative: Tragedy and Hope in an Urban Immigrant Community.","authors":"G. Michie","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.04.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.04.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"Uvaldo enrolled at Dugan, located in Back of the Yards, a predominantly Mexican immigrant community on Chicago’s south side, after leaving a traditional high school because he felt unsafe. Other students have their own stories. Tony was ordered to attend an alternative school after repeated suspensions – once for being caught on school grounds with two ounces of marijuana. Karina was arrested and advised not to return to her high school after taking part in a lunchroom fight with another girl. Manuel can’t point to a specific reason why things didn’t work out at his former school. ‘I just stopped going,’ he tells me. ‘Over there they don’t really care if you go or not.’","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"4 1","pages":"6-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.04.2.03","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68308742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative Learning with Technology: Some Effects on Educational Disaffection.","authors":"Stewart Martin","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.04.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.04.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"Stewart Martin Durham University, Durham, UK Introduction How welcome parents and carers feel at their children’s school seems likely to have a significant influence on the degree to which they and their children engage with its educational programme. The ethos of the school and the nature of the classroom environment as determined by teachers are therefore significant and continuing features of its pedagogy and its taught and ‘hidden’ curriculum (Landon and Carr, 1999; McDowell and Kay, 1998).","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"4 1","pages":"14-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68308789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}