TITLE:
Adolescent Mental Health Research in Macau
AUTHORS:
Pou-Chan Lo, Sau-Kam Chan
KEYWORDS:
Depressive Symptom, Anxiety Symptom, Stress Symptom, Difficulty-Handling Strategy, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.2 No.11,
November
24,
2014
ABSTRACT: Adolescence is an important period in which
an individual experiences significant changes in physical, mental and social
aspects. When an adolescent with risk of having depression or anxiety disorder
cannot derive appropriate treatment in an earlier stage, they may encounter a
higher tendency to trigger onset of the problems in their adulthood. So the
adolescent mental health is too important to neglect However, here in Macau,
there is still no research investigating the issue of adolescent daily emotional
problem. Therefore, this research will look into adolescent mental health in
Macau, emotional problems and the relationship between thinking strategy and
difficulty- handling strategy. This research uses DASS21 questionnaire,
Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), and Pressure Manage Mode
as investigation tools. 2780 pieces of questionnaires were sent out and 2766
questionnaires were successfully responded. The respondent rate is up to 99.5%.
The research found that about 22% adolescent have serious anxiety symptoms. The
more negative thinking strategies they adopted to face the challenges or dissatisfaction,
the higher level of depression, anxiety and stress they suffered. Furthermore,
the adolescent tend to avoid and neglect the problems when they undergo
emotional problems.