Depression level of undergrad students: BDI scale

Abstract

When a person goes through a time span between adolescence to adulthood, can fall into depression as their roles and responsibilities change. Under-graduation time is the important time for this type of transformation. Sometimes few factors cause serious mental affect on the students. Therefore, this study wants to investigate the depression levels of the university students. Gender, residential status, cumulative grade point average (CGPA) and year of studying are considered as influencing factors of depression. Using simple random sampling, 119 students of different years of the Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh are taken. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scale is used to analyze the depression level. The significant association between the categorical variables is measured using chi-square test. After analyses it is found that gender and residential status have significant effect on depression. Most of the students are in borderline mood. The girls and students who are living outside the campus are found to be depressed than that of the boys and students living inside the campus respectively. Depression level is varying with studying year. It gradually decreases over studying years, but interestingly increases in last year of studying. Students with better results are inclined to be more depressed than their counterpart.