Makilim Nunes Baptista

Estrutura e suporte familiar como fatores de risco na depressão de adolescentes

Depressive Disorders could be consider the most important disorder at this time. But depression could not be viewed only in a simple way, because several variables are important to develop and maintenance this state. Depressive symptoms could be causing by biological, genetics, social and psychological factors. This article will aboard specifically the relation between family aspects and adolescent depression. Then, the clinician must pay attention to all variables to develop correct diagnostics and intervention with adolescents and families.

Stigma of Seeking Psychological Services: Examining College Students Across Ten Countries/Regions:

Stigma is an important barrier to seeking psychological services worldwide. Two types of stigma exist: public stigma and self-stigma. Scholars have argued that public stigma leads to self-stigma, and then self-stigma is the primary predictor of attitudes toward seeking psychological services. However, this assertion is largely limited to U.S. samples. The goal of this research was to provide a first step in understanding the relationship between public stigma, self-stigma, and attitudes toward seeking psychological services in international contexts (N = 3,276; Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Portugal, Romania, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and United States). Using structural equation modeling, we found that self-stigma mediated the relationship between public stigma and attitudes toward seeking services among college students in each country and region. However, differences in path strengths emphasize the need to pay attention to the role of public and self-stigma on attitudes toward seeking psychological services throughout the world.

Suporte familiar, crenças irracionais e sintomatologia depressiva em estudantes universitários

The present study aimed to verify the relations between the perception of family support, depressive symptoms and irrational beliefs. The sample included 377 volunteers of a university of Sao Paulo with mean age of 20,69 years (SD= 2,29) and with a prevalence of women (68,2%), that answered to the Inventario de Percepcao de Suporte Familiar - IPSF, the Inventario de Depressao de Beck-BDI and the Escala de Crencas Irracionais - ECI. The results showed correlations between the IPSF with BDI and ECI, indicating that higher scores on the perception of family support implied less depressive symptoms and lower number of irrational beliefs of the subjects. Correlations between BDI and ECI were also found, indicating that highest scores on irrational beliefs indicated higher scores on depression symptoms, according to the literature.

Cross-Cultural Validation of the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help (PSOSH) Scale.

Social network stigma refers to the perceived negative views about seeking help for mental health problems that are held by those closest to an individual, such as family and friends. This form of stigma predicts help-seeking attitudes and intentions beyond other forms of stigma, and is predominantly measured using the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help scale (PSOSH; Vogel, Wade, & Ascheman, 2009). However, the PSOSH was normed using samples from the United States and, until the cross-cultural validity of this measure is established, it cannot reliably be used within other countries (Miller & Sheu, 2008). As such, the current study (N = 3,440) examined the cross-cultural measurement invariance of the PSOSH using the sequential constraint imposition approach across 11 countries/regions: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Portugal, Romania, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the United Kingdom (U.K.), and the United States (U.S.). Overall, findings indicate that the PSOSH measures a meaningful construct (i.e., configural and metric invariance) across the 11 countries/regions and that future cross-cultural research could use the PSOSH to examine relationships between social network stigma and other variables. Scalar invariance results also supported the examination of mean differences in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Portugal, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S., but not in Hong Kong, Romania, Taiwan, and UAE. Implications for future cross-cultural research are discussed.

Family support, irrational beliefs and depressive symptomatology among undergraduation students

The present study aimed to verify the relations between the perception of family support, depressive symptoms and irrational beliefs. The sample included 377 volunteers of a university of Sao Paulo with mean age of 20,69 years (SD= 2,29) and with a prevalence of women (68,2%), that answered to the Inventario de Percepcao de Suporte Familiar - IPSF, the Inventario de Depressao de Beck-BDI and the Escala de Crencas Irracionais - ECI. The results showed correlations between the IPSF with BDI and ECI, indicating that higher scores on the perception of family support implied less depressive symptoms and lower number of irrational beliefs of the subjects. Correlations between BDI and ECI were also found, indicating that highest scores on irrational beliefs indicated higher scores on depression symptoms, according to the literature.

Soporte familiar, creencias irracionales y sintomatología depresiva en estudiantes universitarios

The present study aimed to verify the relations between the perception of family support, depressive symptoms and irrational beliefs. The sample included 377 volunteers of a university of Sao Paulo with mean age of 20,69 years (SD= 2,29) and with a prevalence of women (68,2%), that answered to the Inventario de Percepcao de Suporte Familiar - IPSF, the Inventario de Depressao de Beck-BDI and the Escala de Crencas Irracionais - ECI. The results showed correlations between the IPSF with BDI and ECI, indicating that higher scores on the perception of family support implied less depressive symptoms and lower number of irrational beliefs of the subjects. Correlations between BDI and ECI were also found, indicating that highest scores on irrational beliefs indicated higher scores on depression symptoms, according to the literature.