- Title
- Socioeconomic status as a mediator of the relationship between depression and rurality in Australian adolescents
- Creator
- Newnham, Krystal; Boyd, Candice; Newnham, Karyn; Aisbett, Damon; Francis, Kristy
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/62412
- Identifier
- vital:3026
- Identifier
- ISSN:1833-3060
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to establish whether socioeconomic status would mediate the relationship between rurality and depression in a sample of Australian adolescents. Participants were 65 rural and 64 urban secondary school students from Years 11 and 12 who completed a survey that included a brief demographic questionnaire and the Centre for Epidemiological Studies - Depression Scale. Schools were selected for their degree of rurality as measured by the Accessibility and Remoteness Index for Australia, and the socioeconomic status of each individual was estimated via postal code using the Socio-Economic Index of Australia. Although a significant relationship between degree of rurality and depression was found, socioeconomic status did not mediate this relationship. These results suggest that the relationship between rurality and depression for young people is not due to simple differences in socioeconomic status between urban and rural areas. Other features of 'place' must be considered in accounting for rural-urban differences in adolescent depression.; C1
- Publisher
- Ballarat University of Ballarat
- Relation
- Rural Social Work and Community Practice Vol. 13, no. 2 (2008), p. 26-32
- Rights
- Copyright University of Ballarat
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1607 Social Work; Adolescence; Depression; Rurality; Australian; Socioeconomic status; Rural; Urban
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