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In a study of the relationship between health habits and depression, 80 high school students, selected on an availability basis, were administered a Health Behaviors Questionnaire (HBQ) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The HBQ and the BDI significantly correlated (r=0.43p<0.01). Those who smoked were more frequently depressed than those who did not (X 2=10.5p<0.05), and those who used drugs other than marijuana were depressed more frequently than those who did not (X 2=9.2p<0.01). Mildly overweight boys (overweight by more than 5% of their ideal weight) and mildly under-weight boys (underweight by more than 5% of their ideal weight) were more
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This research was supported in part by a grant from the American Diabetes Association and by National institute of Health Grant MH 15529.
Received his M.D. at George Washington School of Medicine. Major interest is interface of child psychiatry and pediatrics.
Received his M.D. at Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York. Major interest is metabolic changes in adolescence.
Received her M.A. from Queens College, New York. Major interest is measurement of human behavior.
Received his M.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Major interest is adolescent sexuality.
Received her Ph.D. in psychology from Hofstra University. Major interest is evaluation of clinical programs. depressed than boys of normal weight (p<0.02). The more pounds underweight the girls were, the more depressed they were (r=0.482, p<0.05). The closer the weight of a girl who perceived herself as overweight was to her ideal weight, the more depressed she was (r=−0.428,p<0.05).
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Kaplan, S.L., Nussbaum, M., Skomorowsky, P. et al. Health habits and depression in adolescence. J Youth Adolescence 9, 299–304 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02087981
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