Open Access"Relationship between Irrational Beliefs and Depression in Late Adolescence "
Author(s) -
Elizabeth Jasmine,
G. Venkatesh Kumar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
artha journal of social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0975-329X
DOI - 10.12724/ajss.16.6
Subject(s) - irrational number , depression (economics) , psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , geometry , mathematics , economics , macroeconomics
The present study was aimed at examining the relationship between Irrational Beliefs and Depression among the late adolescent college students (N=502). Studies have found depression to be one of the most crippling disorders and the leading cause for suicide among all age groups and that this state is primarily being caused by wrong thinking and belief patterns such as irrational beliefs and further irrational beliefs are being maintained due to the depressed state of the individual. Hence the present study apart from analyzing the directions of possible relationship of Irrational Beliefs with Depression, reviews the existing literature to showcase how one causes and maintains the other.