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Three hundred and eighty-five junior and senior high school students completed the Beck Depression Inventory. Utilizing cut-off points developed by Beck, 300 adolescents (77.9%) were nondepressed, 52 (13.5%) were mildly depressed, 28 (7.3%) were moderately depressed, and 5 (1.3%) were severely depressed. Lower social class adolescents were more depressed than higher social class adolescents; younger adolescents were less depressed than older adolescents; and there was no difference between total depression scores in male and female adolescents when age and social class were controlled.