Abstract

The objective of this study is to identify the relationship between woman depression and negative life stress and interpersonal problems. A questionnaire about negative life stress, Korean version of Inventory Interpersonal Problems(IIP), and BDI were surveyed to 308 female college students for this research. The results of this study are as follow: first, as the result of multiple regression to predict depression by life stress, the frequency of interpersonal life stress experienced was more important to depression than that of achievement related stress. On the other hand, to predict depression by seriousness of life stress, level of seriousness of achievement related stress acts more important factor than that of interpersonal stress. The results of multiple regression to examine the affects of interpersonal problems on depression shows that ‘cold' factor explains depression most highly (21.3%), and ‘overly nurturant', ‘vindictive', and ‘nonassertive' were verified to explain depress significantly among 8 sub factors of interpersonal problems. Second, the results of hierarchical multiple regression analysis to examine the strength of affects on woman depression by negative life stress and interpersonal problems, interpersonal problems (29.1%) explains woman depression more than negative life stress(6.5%). This is suggestive that interpersonal problems have relatively important factor on woman depression.