Kimberly Kien

Mrs. Jizi

UWRT 1104-017

27 March 2017

Annotated Bibliography

Sikora, Renata. "Risk behaviors at late childhood and early adolescence as predictors of

depression symptoms" Current Problems of Psychiatry, 17.3 (2016): 173-177. Retrieved

29 Mar. 2017, from doi:10.1515/cpp-2016-0018

This journal entry was an experiment looking to see if there were any risk

behaviors that may affect the psychological and social well-being of young adolescents

early on to predict future depression. Examples of those risk behaviors are drinking,

sexual activity, smoking, partying, drugs, and violence. The study looks at results

between genders and age of the adolescents and if there are any correlation between risk

factor and depression. Later on, the study included more factors to measure including

whether it was a one parent household or two parent household. The results were

significantly different. The author concluded that early adolescence risk behaviors tend to

be gender specific with boys tending to drink more and girls succumbing to peer pressure

more. It was also found that boys living with one parent showed significantly more risk

behaviors than those living with two parents. From this study, it concludes that even the

smallest risk behaviors have a connection to depression in adolescents.

 I wasnt very surprised by the results of these studies because I see a rational

behind the results between boys and girls and their age and condition. The results make

sense to me because I have exhibited some of those risk behaviors when I was in high

school and it correlated to my depression. My inquiry topic is trying to find ways to

educate parents and friends of someone who is depressed so they will have the resources

to show support for their loved ones who need it. In the study it was mentioned that

children are more active in this field than their caregivers expect. The field, being risky

behaviors they participate in. It shows that caregivers most of the time, do not notice the

child is exhibiting risky behaviors that could correspond with depression until it is too

late to notice. I plan to use information from these studies as proof for parents and friends

to see and pay more attention to risk behaviors in their loved ones so that they can take

immediate steps to help them battle depression and becoming more understanding of the

disease.

This is a credible source because it is a lab report with formal results and

conclusions of the study. I was able to find it in the librarys academic search database

and on Google under scholarly articles. The website to the article provided citations that

you can cite with. The date that the article was published was last year and the more

recent an article is, the more that the topic is being discussed and related to the present

time. The author is Renata Sikora and she has a PhD in Clinical and Developmental

Psychology in Poland.