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Prevalence of Clinical Depression Symptoms Within High-School Level Student Athletes Residing in East Tennessee

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  • Shannon Willard Researcher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58445/rars.689

Keywords:

Clinical Depression, Athletes, symptoms

Abstract

In order to determine whether sport participation has an effect on the amount of Clinical Depression symptoms exhibited by a participant, a comparison of Beck’s Depression Inventory (BDI) scores of East Tennessee high school student athletes was compared to East Tennessee high schoolers that did not participate in a sport. Three groups were investigated for comparison purposes. Participants were gathered to answer the questionnaire through a convenience sample: Instagram and Snapchat Stories. After the data collection period was over, the participant’s total levels of depression were calculated along with the mean BDI Score of each population. The mean scores of each group were compared in order to determine if Clinical Depression symptoms were more prominent across different groups. Group 1 had a mean BDI score of 16.87, while Group 2 had a mean BDI score of 15.06, and Group 3 had a mean BDI score of 12.36. Groups 1 and 2 fell under the same BDI scoring legend of “Borderline Clinical Depression" and Group 3 fell under “Mild Mood Disturbance”. East Tennessee high schoolers show a greater amount of Clinical Depression symptoms than high schoolers that do not participate in a sport, allowing for the conclusion that participating in a sport increases the amount of Clinical Depression symptoms expressed.

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