The investigation of the relationship between thedepression levels of the young adults and automaticthoughts

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between depression level and automatic thoughts of young adults working in various sectors with different varriables. The universe of research forms young adult individuals working in various sectors living in Istanbul province in 2017. Participants included a total of 145 people, 75 (51,7%) female and 70 (48,3%) male. Research to collect data "Beck Depression Inventory" and "Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire" was used. This research was conducted using correlational design to look at the relationship between automatic thougts and depression level. For the analysis of the data, firstly descriptive statistic of the demographic of the participants were given. Independent samples t -test and one way ANOVA test were performed between the total scores of the Beck Depression Inventory and the sociodemographic characteristic of the individuals. The same process was applied to the total scores of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire and the independent variables. Mann Whitney U and Kruskall Wallis H tests were used to analyze the results using the Automatic Thought Quest ionnaire subdimensions which constitutes the main purpose of the research is the correlation between depression and negative automatic thoughts. Findings obtained as a result of the research revealed that there is a significant relationship between automatic thoughts and depression. It was seen that there was a statistically significant difference between depression level of individuals and gender, marital status, education level variables. It was determined that there is a significant difference between the automatic thought frequency level and the gender and marital status variables. Keywords: Depression, Automatic Thoughts, Young Adult