A Comparative Study of Depression between School and College Students

The present study has been designed to investigate the depression of the school and college going students. For accomplish the study total 100 students (50 students of school and 50 students of college) were selected through random sampling as subjects of this study. All the samples were selected from Rohtak district, Haryana. The age of the sample were ranged from 15 to 25. To accomplish the study PHQ-9 is multipurpose instrument for screening, diagnosing, monitoring and measuring the severity of depression test was used. It was developed by Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, and Kurt Kroenke. SPSS version 20 was used to apply all statistical terms and t test was applied to compare the results. The level of significance was set at 0.05. A significant difference was observed between school and college students in their depression level. We find out that college students are more depressed in comparison of school students.