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The relationship of depression to social skills and intellectual functioning in mentally retarded adults
Author(s) -
HELSEL W. J.,
MATSON J. L.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1988.tb01431.x
Subject(s) - psychology , peabody picture vocabulary test , psychopathology , depression (economics) , beck depression inventory , rating scale , intellectual disability , mentally retarded , clinical psychology , social skills , mental age , developmental psychology , psychiatry , cognition , anxiety , economics , macroeconomics
. Ninety‐nine mild to severely mentally retarded adults were evaluated on a variety of measures. The battery included the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Revised (PPVT), the Psychopathology Instrument for Mentally Retarded Adults, the Social Performance Survey Schedule, Hamilton Rating Scale of Depression, the Beck Depression Inventory and Zung Self‐Rating Depression Scale. Depression and social skills measures correlated significantly with each other on self‐report and informant reports. Receptive vocabulary did not significantly correlate with depression or social skills measures, irrespective of self or other report format. Additionally, demographic variables such as intellectual level were not significant. The PPVT mean scores differed significantly by level of mental retardation as might be expected. The significance of these data and their implication for further study are reviewed.