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    Relationships with parents and friends, self‐esteem and depression among adolescents with visual impairments

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    Taina Maarit Huurre ,

    Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research in the National Public Health Institute of Finland, FI
    About Taina Maarit

    Taina Huurre, Lic.Ed, Ph.D, is working as a research fellow in the Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research in the National Public Health Institute of Finland. She studied in her doctoral thesis the psychosocial development and social support among adolescents with visual impairment. Her main research areas include disabilities and chronic illnesses, social support and socioeconomic differences in health.

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    Erkki Juhani Komulainen,

    Department of Education, University of Helsinki
    About Erkki Juhani

    Erkki Komulainen, Ph.D, Docent in Education, is a researcher at the Department of Education, University of Helsinki. He has specialized to questions of quantitative methodology and statistics in behavioral sciences. He works as consultant in several projects in educational psychology and psychiatry.

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    Hillevi Marita Aro

    National Public Health Institute of Finland, FI
    About Hillevi Marita

    Hillevi Aro, MD, Ph.D, is a psychiatrist who has worked as a researcher and professor of social psychiatry at the University of Tampere, and currently works as the Chief of Mental Health Epidemiology Unit at the National Public Health Institute of Finland. Her main research interests include developmental psychopathology, research on psychosocial stress and epidemiology of depression.

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    Abstract

    Social relationships with parents and friends, depression, and the mediating role of self‐esteem between relationships and depression were studied among 115 adolescents with visual impairments attending regular Finnish schools. The control group consisted of normally sighted classmates of visually impaired adolescents (N=607). The data were collected using a self‐report questionnaire.

    The results showed no significant difference in the prevalence of depression between visually impaired adolescents and the control group. However, there was a trend toward an excessive risk of depression among girls with visual impairments compared to girls without visual impairments. In addition to being male, higher scores of relationships with friends was an important protective factor against depression among adolescents with visual impairments. The impact of relationships with friends, on depressive symptoms was mediated through self‐esteem. Unlike in controls, relationships with parents was not an explanatory factor of depression in adolescents with visual impairments. The mechanisms and processes explaining the various effects of relationships with parents and friends on self‐esteem and depression need further investigation through longitudinal studies.

    How to Cite: Huurre, T.M., Komulainen, E.J. & Aro, H.M., (2009). Relationships with parents and friends, self‐esteem and depression among adolescents with visual impairments. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 3(1), pp.21–37. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410109510766
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    Huurre, T.M., Komulainen, E.J. & Aro, H.M., (2009). Relationships with parents and friends, self‐esteem and depression among adolescents with visual impairments. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 3(1), pp.21–37. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410109510766

    Huurre TM, Komulainen EJ, Aro HM. Relationships with parents and friends, self‐esteem and depression among adolescents with visual impairments. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 2009;3(1):21–37. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410109510766

    Huurre, T. M., Komulainen, E. J., & Aro, H. M. (2009). Relationships with parents and friends, self‐esteem and depression among adolescents with visual impairments. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 3(1), 21–37. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410109510766

    Huurre, Taina Maarit, Erkki Juhani Komulainen, and Hillevi Marita Aro. 2009. Relationships with parents and friends, self‐esteem and depression among adolescents with visual impairments 3, no. 1: 21–37. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410109510766

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