The relationship between socioeconomic status and personality type with depression in adolescents

This study aimed to identify the relationship between socio-economic status and personality type in relation to the occurrence of depression in adolescents. The samples of this study were high school students, as many as 248 persons. The study was carried out in six high schools in Bukittinggi City, Indonesia. This study applied a mixed methodology using a sequential exploratory design. The quantitative study was conducted using questionnaires with a correlational design and the cross-sectional approach. The qualitative study used an in-depth interview as the data collection method. The independent variables in this research were the personality type and socio-economic status. Meanwhile, the dependent variable was depression. The data was analysed using Chi-square analysis. The odd ratio was applied to identify the relationship significance of the independent and dependent variables. The results shows that there were significant relationships between socioeconomic status and depression (p=0.002; OR 2.241) and between personality type and depression (p=0.000; OR=1.935). The incidence rate of depression within adolescents relates closely to the factor of socioeconomic status and personality type. Therefore, adolescents are expected to understand themselves further to not trigger depressive incidents.