Abstract:
Depression in mothers with pregnant teenage daughters is a mental health problem that affects the mothers themselves and their families. The objectives of this predictive study were to study depression of mothers whose their teenage daughters were preganant and its influencing factors. The samples were 100 mothers of pregnant teenage daughters who received services at Banglamung hospital. Simple random sampling was used to recuit the participants. Data collection was conducted from February to April 2016. Research instruments includes Personal Information Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory, Rumination Response Scale, Negative Automatic Thought Questionnaire, Jalowiec Coping Scale assessing the problem focused coping behavior and emotional focused coping behavior, and Personal Resource Questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and Stepwise multiple regression were used for data analyses. The study finding reveal that 89 percent of the sample had depression. Among these, 23 percent had mild to moderate depression, 48 percent had moderate to severe depression and 6 percent had severe depression. Stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that rumination and emotional focused coping behavior could predict 57% of variance in depression (R 2 =.57, p < .001). The most influencing factor was rumination (β =.30, p<.001). The results suggest that health professionals should concern and be aware of depression among the mothers whose their teenage daughters were pregnant. In order to reduce their depression, development of program aimed at reducing rumination thought and promoting proper coping is recommended.