Relación entre nivel socioeconómico, apoyo social percibido, género y depresión en ni？os

people who has emotional difficulties characterized by depressive symptoms, observe difficulties in the social area, especially in the interpersonal relations. across the social support there are received psychological and material resources in order that the subject could answer adequately. the socioeconomic characteristics would be important at the moment of adding resources to face to the depressive symptoms. the sample of the study remained constituted by 593 students of both sexes, from 9 to 13 years, 52.3% (n = 310) of masculine sex and 47.7% (n = 283) of feminine sex. 47.5% (n = 283) was children of schools of social-economic low class and 310 (52,5%) of middle class. the selected institutions concern to the province of buenos aires (república argentina). there used the questionnaire mos of social support (sherbourne & stewart, 1991) that is centralized in the analysis of the perception of help. it is a question of a questionnaire auto administered of 20 items. the first item values structural support and the rest functional support. also one administered the argentine version of the scale of depression for children and teenagers of harterand nowakowski (richaud de minzi, sacchi, & moreno, 2001). it is an auto report that includes five dimensions of the depression: lack of energy, negative auto-valuation, auto-accusation and sadness; every subscale has six items. and ad-hoc constructed an interview to obtain information socio-demographics of the children, such as age, sex and socioeconomic level. it was possible to observe by means of a manova that there were significant differences in the depression, according to the perception of social support [ f (8, 284) = 3.71; p = .000] . the children who perceived high place social support demonstrated major positive state of mind (m = 12.60) in comparison with those that they perceived under social support (m = 10.59). also they gave to themselves significant differences in positive auto-valuation between the childre