Adolescents' Depression, Self-perceived Success in Academic Domain, Vulnerability to Depression and Anxiety

This research is based on cognitive theories of depressive disorder (Beck, 1979), on Bronfenbrenner's (1979) social-ecological perspective on human development, and on Harter (1999)'s phenomenological assumption about adolescents' self-perceptions. Aiming at identifying the relationships between level of adolescents' depression, vulnerability to depression, anxiety and self- perceived success in academic domain, this study presents the results of the differential and regression analyses of a 100 adolescents' nonclinical depression' scores according to the above mentioned variables.