The depressive affect of black (N = 19) and white (N = 21) adolescents females was compared by means of Set 2 of the Depression Adjective Check Lists (DACL) in a preliminary search for depression-proneness factors. The depressive affect of the two groups was not significantly different. In addition, the DACL means of the black adolescent females were not significantly different from another sample of white female adolescents (N = 37) from the same school system.