Rashtchi Mojgan, Zokaee Zahra, Ghaffarinejad Ali R, Sadeghi Mohammad M
TEFLL Department, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Neurosciences (Riyadh). 2012 Jul;17(3):236-40.
To compare the comprehension of depressed and non-depressed male and female Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in receptive skills, and to investigate whether inefficiency in learning English could be due to depression.
We selected 126 boys and 96 girls aged between 15 and 18 by simple random sampling from 2 high schools in Kerman, Iran to examine whether there was any significant relationship between depression and comprehension of receptive skills in males and females. We undertook this descriptive, correlational study between January and May 2011 in Kerman, Iran. After administration of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), we found that 93 students were non-depressed, 65 had minimal depression, 48 mild depression, and 16 suffered from severe depression.
The correlation between participants` scores on listening and reading test with depression level indicated a significant relationship between depression and comprehension of both listening, and reading. Males had higher scores in both reading and listening. In listening, there was no significant difference among the levels of depression and males and females. Regarding the reading skill, there was no significant difference among levels of depression; however, the reading comprehension of males and females differed significantly.
Learners who show a deficiency in receptive skills should be examined for the possibility of suffering from some degree of depression.
比较伊朗男性和女性外语（英语）学习者中抑郁组与非抑郁组在接受技能方面的理解能力，并调查英语学习效率低下是否可能归因于抑郁。
我们通过简单随机抽样从伊朗克尔曼市的两所高中选取了126名年龄在15至18岁之间的男生和96名女生，以检验男性和女性的抑郁与接受技能理解之间是否存在显著关系。我们于2011年1月至5月在伊朗克尔曼市进行了这项描述性、相关性研究。在进行贝克抑郁量表（BDI）测试后，我们发现93名学生无抑郁，65名有轻微抑郁，48名有中度抑郁，16名患有重度抑郁。
参与者在听力和阅读测试中的得分与抑郁水平之间的相关性表明，抑郁与听力和阅读理解之间存在显著关系。男性在阅读和听力方面得分更高。在听力方面，抑郁水平和性别之间没有显著差异。关于阅读技能，抑郁水平之间没有显著差异；然而，男性和女性的阅读理解存在显著差异。
在接受技能方面表现不足的学习者应接受检查，以确定是否有患某种程度抑郁症的可能性。
