Table 1.
General demographic and clinical characteristics of adolescents with depression.
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The whole sample N = 293 |
Alexithymia N = 224 |
Non-alexithymia N = 69 |
Statistics | |||||
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| N | % | N | % | N | % | X 2 | P | |
| Female | 215 | 73.4 | 166 | 74.1 | 49 | 71.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
| Only child | 118 | 40.3 | 85 | 37.9 | 33 | 47.8 | 2.1 | 0.1 |
| Relationship with classmates | −1.5 | 0.1 | ||||||
| Good | 53 | 18.2 | 38 | 17.1 | 15 | 21.7 | ||
| Average | 177 | 60.8 | 133 | 59.9 | 44 | 63.8 | ||
| Bad | 61 | 21.0 | 51 | 23.0 | 10 | 14.5 | ||
| Relationship with teachers | −0.3 | 0.7 | ||||||
| Good | 52 | 17.9 | 38 | 17.1 | 14 | 20.3 | ||
| Average | 172 | 59.1 | 136 | 61.3 | 36 | 52.2 | ||
| Bad | 67 | 23.0 | 48 | 21.6 | 19 | 27.5 | ||
| School bullying | 138 | 47.1 | 116 | 51.8 | 22 | 31.9 | 8.4 | 0.004 |
| Severity of illness | −2.2 | 0.03 | ||||||
| Disease-free | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| Basically disease-free | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| Extremely light | 7 | 2.4 | 5 | 2.2 | 2 | 2.9 | ||
| Mild | 50 | 17.1 | 33 | 14.7 | 17 | 24.6 | ||
| Moderate | 89 | 30.4 | 67 | 29.9 | 22 | 31.9 | ||
| Heavy | 109 | 37.2 | 86 | 38.4 | 23 | 33.3 | ||
| Severe | 37 | 12.6 | 32 | 14.3 | 5 | 7.2 | ||
| Extremely heavy | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | T / Z | P | |
| Age (years) | 15.2 | 1.7 | 15.3 | 1.7 | 15.0 | 1.8 | −1.0 | 0.3 |
| Total disease course (month) | 20.3 | 18.3 | 21.1 | 18.6 | 18.0 | 17.3 | −1.2 | 0.2 |
| ASLEC score | 54.1 | 21.7 | 57.3 | 20.9 | 43.8 | 21.1 | −4.6 | <0.001 |
| CTQ score | 50.7 | 13.1 | 51.9 | 12.9 | 47.0 | 13.0 | −2.6 | 0.01 |
| PANSI score | 78.3 | 23.0 | 80.3 | 22.6 | 72.1 | 23.4 | −3.2 | 0.001 |
ASLEC, the Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List; CTQ, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; PANSI, the Positive and Negative Suicide Ideation Inventory.