本研究旨在了解國中生知覺家庭功能、社會支持與憂鬱傾向的相關性。本研究採用問卷調查法，研究工具包含「家庭功能量表」、「社會支持量表」和「國中小學生憂鬱篩檢量表」，並以台灣地區十二個縣市，共1159 位國中生為抽樣調查對象，將調查所得資料以敘述統計、單因子多變項變異數分析、Pearson 積差相關及多元逐步迴歸預測分析等統計方法進行分析。本研究所得結果如下：（一）國中生整體憂鬱傾向，因性別、年級的不同而有顯著差異；（二）國中生之家庭功能與憂鬱傾向有顯著正相關；（三）國中生之社會支持與憂鬱傾向有顯著負相關；（四）國中生社會支持中的「情感性支持」分層面最能預測其憂鬱傾向。最後，根據以上研究結果，本研究提出相關具體可行之建議，以供父母及主要照顧者、學校教師與輔導相關人員以及未來研究者參考。

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among familyfunction, social support and depressive mood of the junior high school students. Themethod of survey research, and the instruments included Family Function Inventory,Social Support Inventory and Depression Screening Scale for Children andAdolescent. The participants were 1159 junior high school students in Taiwan. Thecollected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, one-way MANOVA, Pearsoncorrelation, and multiple stepwise regression. The main findings of the study are asfollows: 1.Depression of junior high school students vary significantly with genders,grades. 2.Significant positive correlation appears between family function anddepression. 3.Significant negative correlation appears between social support anddepression. 4.The perspective “emotional support” is the best predictor depression.According to the findings above, this study provides some suggestions to parents,junior-high school teachers, counselors and further researches.