Depression is a mood disorder prevalent in our country that increases vulnerability to suffer affective disorders in adulthood when it appears in childhood or adolescence, with clear implications for the psychosocial functioning. Furthermore anger-hostility brings negative health implications, and in many cases, predicts situations of violence, for it is seen as a result of poor emotional control. The study was subjected to the analysis of depression and anger-hostility variables according to the presence or not of domestic violence in a sample of 472 fourth high school gradestudents, victims and non-victims of domestic violence, who were given a sociodemographic data survey, the Children’s Depression Inventory and the Multicultural State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory, consisting of Wrath State (CE), Trait Anger (CR) and Expression of Anger components. It was found that there is a s...

Depression is a mood disorder prevalent in our country that increases vulnerability to suffer affective disorders in adulthood when it appears in childhood or adolescence, with clear implications for the psychosocial functioning. Furthermore anger-hostility brings negative health implications, and in many cases, predicts situations of violence, for it is seen as a result of poor emotional control. The study was subjected to the analysis of depression and anger-hostility variables according to the presence or not of domestic violence in a sample of 472 fourth high school gradestudents, victims and non-victims of domestic violence, who were given a sociodemographic data survey, the Children’s Depression Inventory and the Multicultural State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory, consisting of Wrath State (CE), Trait Anger (CR) and Expression of Anger components. It was found that there is a s...