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The study investigated family dysfunction as predictors of depression among women. A total of 107 participants comprising 62 female nurses and 45 female administrative staff were selected making use of available sampling techniques from Federal Neuropsychiatric hospital Enugu were used for the study. Hence, two sets of instruments were used namely; FAD – Family Assessment Device (Epstein, Baldwin & Bishop, 1983); and CES-D – Center Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale (Rudloff, 1977). A cross-sectional design was adopted; while hierarchical multiple regression analysis was applied as a statistic to test the hypothesis that the family dysfunction facet would independently\/ jointly predict depression among women. The result revealed that family dysfunction facets accounted for an additional 7.8% (\u0394R2<\/em>= 4.7%) variation in depression and this change in R2<\/em> was not significant, F<\/em>(9, 97) = .92, p>.05)<\/em> and the relationship between variables was not strong enough (R<\/em> =.28). In addition, the hierarchical multiple regression revealed that educational level, marital status, and age had no significant contribution to the regression model, F<\/em>(3, 103) = 1.10, p>.05)<\/em>. However, the relationship between variables was not that strong(R<\/em> =.18) and accounted for 3.1% (\u0394R2<\/em>=3.1%) of the variance in depression scores. The findings were discussed in relation to the literature reviewed and suggestions made. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keywords: <\/strong>Family Dysfunction, Nurses, Depression and Women<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n