Özet:

This study was conducted to identify the level of depressive symptoms of working teenagers to cope with stress and their relationship with some variables. This study of the identifying and relationship-seeking type was conducted between September and October 2012 with teenagers working 15-17 years old in a professional training center in Istanbul. The study was completed with 116 working teenagers aged 15-17 years, who agreed to take part in the study without going to the sample selection and received a score between 10-29 according to the Beck Depression inventory. The research data was collected using the sociodemographic survey form created by the researchers, Beck Depression Reserve (BDE) and Rosenbaum Learned Strength Scale (RÖGÖ). The student's BDE score average was 23.95±2.17, the RÖGÖ score average was 95.62±6.68. The study found that the increase in the BDE scores of adolescents, the decrease in the ROGE scores, the more depressive symptoms of adolescents with violence in the family environment, who are not in the hands of the profit, who are used for the needs of the profit family. For the development of a healthy society, it is thought to be useful to inform the relevant school managers, teachers and guardians of the subject. It is also recommended that specialized nurses in the various educational institutions where teenagers are located monitoring mental health-risked teenagers, early identification of teenagers with depressive symptoms without leading to chronic depression and serious loss of education, implementing protective initiatives such as "dealing with stress", dealing with stress and evaluation of depressive symptoms.

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