The findings of this study suggest that there is an association between adolescent obesity and depression for Turkish adolescents. Key words: Automatic Negative Thoughts, Self-blame, Rumination and Catastrophizing, INTRODUCTION It is believed that teachers are important pillers of society. There was no significant difference in the means of the Submissive Acts Scale and the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire scores between the obese group and the normal weight group. (2001) and Automatic Thoughts Scale (ATS) It was developed by Hollon and Kendall (1980) were used to get the. Results indicated that the depression level of the obese group was higher than the normal weight group's level. To compare two group averages of the test scores, Mann-Whitney U statistics were employed. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between depression, negative automatic thoughts, life satisfaction, number of symptoms, psychologizing, somatizing and normalizing in young adults.
Their depression levels, submissive social behaviors, and negative automatic thoughts were measured using the Children's Depression Inventory (Kovacs, 1985, adapted by Oy, 1991), the Submissive Acts Scale (Gilbert and Allan, 1984, adapted by Sahin and Sahin, 1992b), and the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (Hollon and Kendall, 1980, adapted by Aydýn and Aydýn, 1990 and Sahin and Sahin, 1992a) respectively. In this study, depression, submissive social behaviors, and frequency of automatic negative thoughts in obese and normal weight Turkish adolescents were investigated.