The influence of social class, strain and social support on symptoms of anxiety and depression in mothers of toddlers

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 61-72

  Mathiesen, K S ^a   Tambs, K ^a   Dalgard, O S ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD CARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NORWAY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0032906026     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050113     Document Type: Article

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