Research Proposal Assignment

PSYC3362375 Senior Research Seminar

Spring 2021

Genesis Garcia

Professor Wei Zhang

3-18-2021

Psychology

1. Topic

Depression

2. Citations

Ruíz Díaz, H., Insfrán, K., Andrada, F., & Ayala, J. (2017). Research on the prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in psychology students and their relation to Personality traits. Revista Científica de la UCSA, 4(1), 17-28.

Siddaway, A. P., Wood, A. M., & Taylor, P. J. (2017). The Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D) scale measures a continuum from well-being to depression: Testing two key predictions of positive clinical psychology. Journal of affective disorders, 213, 180-186.

Hanson, K. (2019). Positive psychology for overcoming symptoms of depression: A pilot study exploring the efficacy of a positive psychology self-help book versus a CBT self-help book. Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy, 47(1), 95-113.

Amani, R. (2020). The role of family function in teenagers anxiety and depression. Clinical Psychology and Personality, 13(2), 77-84.

Vazquez, C., Duque, A., Blanco, I., Pascual, T., Poyato, N., Lopez‐Gomez, I., & Chaves, C. (2018). CBT and positive psychology interventions for clinical depression promote healthy attentional biases: An eye‐tracking study. Depression and anxiety, 35(10), 966-973.

3. Summary

According to the research conducted by Ruíz Díaz et al., (2017) depression and anxiety is a common problem being experienced by students in college. After researching with 69 students who had been students in UCSA, they found out that 17% of the sample suffered from anxiety while 22% of the sample suffered from depression. This is an astonishing finding among university students who are supposed to be the future and help the country and their families in the coming future. The conclusion was the involvement and engagement of psychological training in university and higher learning institutions to help prevent the rate of depression and anxiety from within youths.

In his research, Hanson (2019) tested the effectiveness of positive psychology and the influence it had in helping to solve the prevailing depression issues in society. According to his findings, he realized that positive psychology could cut and prevent depression among people. In his research, 115 people were involved, and according to the findings, positive psychology has an influence and impact on how people perceive themselves and how far and how much they can go to get away from depression.

According to all research, depression is increasing at a very alarming rate. Although youths are highly affected, the results are that many people (from all age groups) are diagnosed with depression. The articles have given out their findings and provided suggestions on how to deal with increased depression cases. They show a strong connection between depression, activities people are involved in, and the victim’s mindset and how it influences their recovery rate from the disease as more people continue suffering from depression. It is important to come up with a fast and easy solution that can help in solving this nightmare. A good number of people are suffering from depression, and they have to be helped overcome the situation. The articles have good recommendations that, when implemented, can help in solving the issues at hand.