Adolescent onset of the gender difference in lifetime rates of major depression. A theoretical model

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-27

  Cyranowski, Jill M ^a   Frank, Ellen ^a   Young, Elizabeth ^b   Shear, M Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; AGE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; ONSET AGE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 0033984340     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.57.1.21     Document Type: Review

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