Mental Disorders in Adolescents

Ahn, Dong Hyun

doi:10.5124/jkma.2009.52.8.745

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“…1) Reportedly, 3-7% of adolescents in America and 5-8% of Korean adolescents experience depressed mood. 2,3) Several predictors of depressed mood in adolescence have been identified: grade in school, friendships, socioeconomic status, family problems, family history of depression, drinking alcohol, smoking, health problems, suicidal history, and body image dissatisfaction. 4,5) During adolescence, the perception of one's body, or body image, changes due to the rapid development and maturation of the body.…”

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Body Mass Index, Body Weight Perception, and Depressed Mood in Korean Adolescents

Lim

Kim

2017

J Korean Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Objectives:We examined the relationships between the body mass index, body weight perception, and depressed mood in a nationally representative sample of Korean adolescents. Methods: We analyzed the data from the 2013 Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey and evaluated the relationships between the body mass index, body weight perception, and depressed mood by gender (36655 boys and 35780 girls). Results: For boys, a low body mass index and perceiving oneself as underweight were related to depressed mood. For girls, both low and high body mass indices were negatively related to depressed mood. In addition, self-perceptions of being underweight or overweight were positively related to depressed mood. Body weight perception was not a significant mediator in the relationship between body mass index and depressed mood. Conclusion: These results suggest that both body mass index and body weight perception significantly contribute to Korean adolescents' depressed mood. Thus, research and clinical attention needs to be given to underweight as well as overweight adolescents, because those who perceive their weight as not normal are at risk for depression.

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Body Mass Index, Body Weight Perception, and Depressed Mood in Korean Adolescents

Lim

Kim

2017

J Korean Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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“…In South Korea, the prevalence rates for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed. ; DSM-IV ; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) major mental disorders among adolescents were 26.0%, and between 2 and 3 in 10 South Korean adolescents were found to have one serious mental illness (Ahn, 2009). Even though mental illness is common among South Korean adolescents, about 74% of the adolescent population are unaffected by mental illness.…”

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Psychometric Characteristics of the Korean Mental Health Continuum–Short Form in an Adolescent Sample

Lim

2013

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

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There have been few research studies to examine the positive mental health of Asian adolescents. The aim here is to examine the factorial structure, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent/discriminant validity of a Korean version of the Mental Health Continuum–short form (K-MHC-SF), a newly developed self-report scale for positive mental health assessment, in a sample of South Korean adolescents. The Korean sample comprised 547 high school students (57% were female), ranging in age from 14 to 17 years (mean age = 16.08 years, SD = 0.34). Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the K-MHC-SF replicated the three-factor structure of emotional, psychological, and social well-being found in earlier studies. Another confirmatory factor analysis supported the correlated two-factor model of mental health and mental disorder. The internal consistency of the overall K-MHC-SF was .91. The total score on the K-MHC-SF significantly correlated with a measure of life satisfaction (ρ = .58) and a measure of self-esteem (ρ = .57). In addition, the attempt at categorical classification revealed that 11.7% were in the category of positive mental health, characterized as flourishing, and 13.0% were in the category of absence of positive mental health, described as languishing. The results of the present study suggest that the K-MHC-SF is a psychometrically sound instrument for measuring the three lower-order dimensions of subjective well-being.

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“…First of all, it is important that the mental health formed in adolescence continues to affect the later adult life (Jun & Jang, ). Psychological difficulties in the development of adolescence may have a negative impact on future family, occupational and social adjustment, regardless of their severity (Ahn, ). In addition, depression in adolescence is not only a strong predictor of suicide, but it also increases the recurrence rate of depression in adulthood (Fleming & Offord, ; Lewinsohn & Clarke, ).…”

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Two‐dimensional mental health and related predictors among adolescents in Korea

Yoo

Kahng

2019

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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This study examined whether the factor structure of mental health consists of two dimensions (positive and negative mental health) and whether the two dimensions are associated with different predictors. For this purpose, data from the 471 adolescents who participated in the 2012 Children Supplementary Survey of Korean Welfare Panel Study were used. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the two‐factor correlated model fits the data significantly better than the one‐factor model. Multivariate analyses revealed that factors associated with positive mental health differ from factors associated with negative mental health. These findings suggest that mental health professionals should consider the dual structure of subjective well‐being and suicidal ideation in the process of assessment and intervention.

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Mental Disorders in Adolescents

Cited by 20 publications

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Body Mass Index, Body Weight Perception, and Depressed Mood in Korean Adolescents

Body Mass Index, Body Weight Perception, and Depressed Mood in Korean Adolescents

Psychometric Characteristics of the Korean Mental Health Continuum–Short Form in an Adolescent Sample

Two‐dimensional mental health and related predictors among adolescents in Korea

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