ANXIETY IN DEPRESSED SCHOOL-CHILDREN

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between anxiety and depression in school children. From a pool of 292 nine- to eleven-year-old children, 23 depressed children (12 boys and 11 girls ) were identified and compared to 23 age- and school-matched controls. Measures were based on parallel items from the self-rated Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), parent-rated Child Behaviour Checklist (CB CL) and Children's Behaviour Questionnaire for parents and teachers as compared to DSM-III symptomatology for Overanxious Disorder (OAD). Re sults suggest that depressed children are generally anxious but not id entical to children suffering from OAD. Depressed girls were most like ly to suffer from tension and somatic symptoms than depressed boys, wh o tend to be more generally anxious at this age.