dc.contributor.author | Erkolahti, Ritva | de |
dc.contributor.author | Nyström, Marjaana | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-07-15T14:11:00Z | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-29T23:03:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-29T23:03:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/12380 | |
dc.description.abstract | Objective: The purpose of the study was to investigate the prevalence of the use of a transitional object (TO) in adolescence and its connection with depressive symptoms and mental distress in youth by gender. Method: The study group consisted of 1,054 adolescents (465 boys, 589 girls) from normal comprehensive schools in Turku, a Finnish town with approximately 175,000 inhabitants. The mean age of both gender groups was 14.5 years (SD 0.5); respondents came from all social classes. Background and TO information was collected with questionnaires. Depressive symptoms and mental distress were explored by the children’s depression inventory (CDI) and its subscales: low self-confidence, anhedonia and sadness. Results: Of all respondents, 29% (n = 285) had a TO: 37% of girls and 18% of boys. The difference between genders was statistically significant. There was also a statistically significant gender difference in the character of the TO reported: 72 % of girls with a TO had a soft toy, whereas 49% of boys with a TO used hard objects, such as pens, hard toys or books. TO-users showed more depressive symptoms than non-users, but the difference was not statistically significant (P = 0.053). Significant differences were found in the CDI subscales: TO-users had more sadness than non-users and girls using a TO showed more sadness than non-using girls. TO-using boys did not differ from non-using boys with regard to sadness or the other CDI-subscales. Conclusions: The use of a TO seems to be common in adolescence. Adolescents with more depressive symptoms more often used a TO. The sadness of girls using TOs requires attention. | en |
dc.language | en | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Psychology | en |
dc.subject.ddc | Psychologie | de |
dc.subject.other | adolescence; attachment; gender differences; transitional object | |
dc.title | The prevalence of transitional object use in adolescence: is there a connection between the existence of a transitional object and depressive symptoms? | en |
dc.description.review | begutachtet (peer reviewed) | de |
dc.description.review | peer reviewed | en |
dc.source.journal | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | de |
dc.source.volume | 18 | de |
dc.publisher.country | DEU | |
dc.source.issue | 7 | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Psychological Testing, Psychological Counseling, Psychological Methodology | en |
dc.subject.classoz | Psychological Disorders, Mental Health Treatment and Prevention | en |
dc.subject.classoz | psychologische Diagnostik und Beratung, psychologische Methoden | de |
dc.subject.classoz | psychische Störungen, Behandlung und Prävention | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | Depression | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | depression | en |
dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-123800 | de |
dc.date.modified | 2010-07-28T10:10:00Z | de |
dc.rights.licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) | de |
dc.rights.licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) | en |
ssoar.gesis.collection | SOLIS;ADIS | de |
ssoar.contributor.institution | http://www.peerproject.eu/ | de |
internal.status | 3 | de |
internal.identifier.thesoz | 10040750 | |
dc.type.stock | article | de |
dc.type.document | journal article | en |
dc.type.document | Zeitschriftenartikel | de |
dc.rights.copyright | f | de |
dc.source.pageinfo | 400-406 | |
internal.identifier.classoz | 10707 | |
internal.identifier.classoz | 10708 | |
internal.identifier.journal | 111 | de |
internal.identifier.document | 32 | |
internal.identifier.ddc | 150 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-009-0747-7 | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Published Version | en |
dc.description.pubstatus | Veröffentlichungsversion | de |
internal.identifier.licence | 7 | |
internal.identifier.pubstatus | 1 | |
internal.identifier.review | 1 | |
internal.check.abstractlanguageharmonizer | CERTAIN | |
internal.check.languageharmonizer | CERTAIN_RETAINED | |