Relationship between child depression and reflexive-impulsive response style

The main purpose of the present study is to analyze the relationship between the depress ive symptoms in 10 to 12 years old children and their confrontation of problems with uncertainty in their response. The reflexive-impulsive response style assessment was elaborated with the Spanish adaptation of the Matching Familiar Figures Test 20, MFFT-20. This response style was chosen for its demonstrated relationship with psychopathological problems, such as depression, and because it is to be operationaly defined as the uncertainty when answering tasks. The Spanish adaptation of Child Depression Inventory, CDI was used to evaluate depression. The results demonstrate the relationship between child depression and their uncertainty in the solution of problems. The depressive subjects make more errors in the MFFT-20, although their response latency doesn't differ from that of the non depressive, which means that their performance is more inefficient.