Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the contribution of social appearance anxiety, attachment of parents and peers in predicting depression in adolescents. The sample of the study consisted of 512 high school students who continued their education in the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades in Alanya in the 2018-2019 academic year. In the analysis of the data, Personal Information Form, Beck Depression Scale, Social Appearance Anxiety Scale, and Parent and Friends Attachment Inventory Short Form were used. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the data. It was observed that there was a significant relationship between depression and social appearance anxiety, attachment to mother, attachment to father, and attachment to friend, and the mentioned variables explained approximately 32% of the variance related to depression. The order of contribution to predicting depression; social appearance anxiety is in the form of attachment to the father, attachment to the mother and attachment to the friend. In addition, there was a significant relationship between depression and gender, income status and perceived parental attitude. Looking at the results, girls are more than boys; According to those with minimum wage income between 4000 TL and minimum wage income; those who perceive that they are authoritarian, inconsistent or irrelevant parental attitudes are higher than those who perceive that they are democratic parental attitudes. There was no significant difference in depression levels by grade level.