The predicting depression based on co-rumination with mediated role social-emotional competence in adolescents

 The purpose of this study was to predicting depression based on co-rumination with mediated role social-emotional competence in adolescents.

This study was conducted in the presence of 400 adolescents by available sampling method among female adolescents in Tehran city in year 1400-1401. To measure the variables, depression inventory-II  (BDI-II) of Beck  (1996), co-rumination questionnaire  (CO-RQ) of Davidson and et al  (2014) and social- emotional competence questionnaire  (SECQ) of Zhou and Ee  (2012) were used. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and structural equation modelling with using SPSS-24 and AMOS software was investigated.

The results Pearson correlation showed that there is significant relationship between co-rumination and social-emotional competence with depression in female adolescents (P <0.01). The results structural equation modelling also showed that most of the direct paths of this study were significant and the indirect paths of co-rumination were significant through the mediating role of social-emotional competence on depression in female adolescents. Also, proposed model had an acceptable fitness to the data (RMSEA=0/067, P-value<0/05).

Thus, this finding can be used to design an intervention and a comprehensive approach to reduction of depression symptoms in adolescent community, so that considering the significant role of co-rumination and social-emotional competence it is suggested to teach social-emotional competence techniques and treatments based on reducing co-rumination to adolescents, to reduce the incidence of depression among them.