The purpose of this research is to study the levels and determinants of depression prone and deviant behavior among students of a junior high school located at remote Miaoli County. The relationship of depression prone and deviant behavior is further explored. The tool for measuring deviant behavior is developed by this author and depression prone is based on the Beck?s melancholia quantity sheet version 2.The total number of students in this research is 152. They are all students of grade 7 to 9 of this school.
The main results are as follows:
1) Current levels of depression prone among students are categorized as normal, slight or medium. Overall speaking, 32.2% of students are showing some degree of depression prone.
2) Those students of grade 9, whose mothers are businesswomen; the parents?
attitudes toward students are permissive; with lower grades in study; and with a bad relation with his/her classmates are more likely to be depression.
3) Those students of grade 8, the parents? attitudes toward students are
permissive; those with a bad grade in study; and with a bad relation with his/her classmates are more likely with deviant behaviors.
4) To sum each deviant behavior adjusted by its weight given by teachers is a better measure for over all deviant behavior.
5) The result of this research showing that the degree of depression prone and the deviant behavior score are highly correlated.
Depression prone and deviant behaviors both are serious problems of students.
Schools, parents, governments are suggested to face these problems positively.
More researches of this regards and to develop a most suitable measurement tool for measuring deviant behavior is rgently needed.
