Exploratory Study of Depressed Adolescents' Life Narratives.

The aim of this study was to explore the life stories of depressive adolescents and compare them with non-clinical adolescents' life stories. For this purpose, we compared 20 life stories of hospitalized adolescents suffering from major depressive episode with 40 life stories of adolescents attending school divided into two groups: 20 non-depressed and 20 depressed adolescents. Results showed that life stories differed as a function of psychopathology.

Social context in school: its relation to adolescents' depressive mood.

This study examined the impact of various school-related factors on adolescents' depressive mood, including prosocial behavior, verbal aggression, and relationships with teachers. The data used in this study were collected in the context of a larger survey on victimization in secondary schools from the French Community of Belgium. Participants were 2896 secondary school students (1520 males; 1376 females) aged 12-18 years.