Adolescent depression and its relationship to emotional intelligence

Abstract

The aim of the research is to identify the level of depression and its relationship to the emotional intelligence of adolescents, and for the purpose of verifying this, the researcher uses the (Beck) scale, which consists of (21) items. As for the emotional intelligence scale, it consisted of (51) items and was prepared by Dr. Farouk Al-Sayed Othman and Muhammad Rizk (2001) based on the "Daniel Goleman" model. The scale was modified so that the answer is in the form of three. The current researcher used factor analysis to extract the validity of the scale. The research sample consisted of (200) male and female students, as the number of females was (100) students and the number of males was (100) students from the preparatory stage. The results showed that about 76 students do not suffer from depression, which constitutes 39% of the total sample. While the number of students with simple depression reached about 60 students, which constitutes 28% of the total sample, while the students with moderate depression reached 36 male and female students, which constitutes 19%, while the number of students suffering from severe depression reached 19. students, which constitutes 9%. Finally, the number of students who suffer from very severe depressive symptoms reached 10 male and female students, which constitutes about 5% of the total sample of 205 male and female students. It was found that females suffer more than males in the severity of depressive symptoms, as well as the result of the research showed that there is a negative correlation between depression and the scores of the emotional intelligence scale among the members of the research sample