한국청소년의 불안 및 우울성향이 청소년비행에 미치는 영향 분석 = An Interrelationship between Adolescent Delinquency and Their Depressive and Trends

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The author has tried to select anxiety and depression variables which can discriminate delinquent adolescents from adolescent students along with exploration of their interrelationship and factor structures to identify causes of adolescent delinquency thus providing strategies for them.
Measurement of anxiety and depression level undergone through use of the self­rating anxiety scale and the self­rating depression scale both of which were developed by Zung. Twenty one hundred and ninety seven subjects served for this study were comprised of 1,440 adolescent students from junior and senior high school and 757 adolescent delinquents from 4 juvenile correctional institutions throughout the nation represented by using census method. The age range was between 12 years old and 21 years old. Data were collected through questionnaire survey, processed by CDC-174 computer using SPSS program and examined by T-test and MDFA as statistical methods. The results of study were as follows.
1. The SAS index of delinquent adolescents (0.505±0.017) was higher than that of adolescent students (0.453±0.015). This result suggested that the higher anxiety level corresponded with higher delinquent tendency.
2. In discriminating delinquent adolescent from adolescent students, insomnia or nightmare were the most significant discriminating factors. Also, sweating or facial flushing were next ones, while dizziness, nausea and vomiting were the least discriminating factors. This suggested that the higher delinquent tendency corresponded with the higher anxiety level of the central nervous system or the sympathetic nervous system, but with the lower anxiety level of the parasympathetic nervous system.
3. The depression index of delinquent adolescents was 0.528±0.020 and that of adolescent students was 0.512±0.017. This result suggested that the higher delinquent tendency corresponded with higher depression level.
4. Agitation, retardation, suicidal rumination, weight loss or insomnia were more frequently complained in the delinquents than adolescent students did. However, confusion, personal devaluation, hopelessness or depressive affect were more frequently shown by adolescent students comparing with the delinquents. This suggested that the higher tendency of suicide, psychomotor activity or rhythmic depression corresponded with higher tendency of delinquency, while the higher tendency of ideational depression or pervasive affect corresponded with lower tendency of delinquency.
5. In the accuracy of the classification of the adolescent delinquency, their discriminating power by self rating depression scale was 92.5% and this rate was higher than the rate of accuracy by self­rating anxiety scale as 66.4%. This indicated that both scales could be useful to discriminate delinquent adolescents from adolescent students, but depression scale was more accurate and reliable than anxiety scale.